From the author ofThe Gustav Sonata

The bestselling and much-loved classic from Orange Prize-winning Rose Tremain,Restorationintroduces us to the young Robert Merivel and his rise and fall through glittering seventeenth-century society. Shortlisted for the Booker prize it has been described as 'triumphant' (Sunday Telegraph) and 'dazzling' (New York Review of Books).

When a twist of fate delivers an ambitious young medical student to the court of King Charles II, he is suddenly thrust into a vibrant world of luxury and opulence. Blessed with a quick wit and sparkling charm, Robert Merivel rises quickly, soon finding favour with the King, and privileged with a position as paper groom to the youngest of the Kings mistresses. But by falling in love with her, Merivel transgresses the one rule that will cast him out from his new-found paradise

Over a million Rose Tremain books sold

A writer of exceptional talent ... Tremain is a writer who understands every emotionIndependent I

There are few writers out there with the dexterity or emotional intelligence to rival that of the great Rose TremainIrish Times

Tremain has the painterly genius of an Old Master, and she uses it to stunning effectThe Times

Rose Tremain is one of the very finest British novelists Salman Rushdie

Tremain is a writer of exemplary vision and particularity. The fictional world is rendered with extraordinary vividness Marcel Theroux,Guardian

Rose Tremains novels and short stories have been published in thirty countries and have won several awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Dylan Thomas Award(The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories),the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music&Silence) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Sacred Country). Her most recent novel,The Gustav Sonata, was aSunday TimesTop Ten Bestseller. It won the National Jewish Book Award in the US, the South Bank Sky Arts Award in the UK and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.

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The bestselling and much-loved classic from Orange Prize-winning Rose Tremain, Restoration introduces us to the young Robert Merivel and his rise and fall through glittering seventeenth-century society.