by Rose Tremain · Sceptre · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780340530443
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«Restoration» is the historical novel by Rose Tremain, published by Sceptre in paperback (384 pages, in English).
Young medical student Robert Merivel enters the court of Charles II and gains the king's favour, but falls in love with the woman he is meant to guard and is banished. After falling from grace, he works in a Quaker asylum and embarks on a path of personal and social restoration.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the Sunday Express Book of the Year. It is the first instalment of the Restoration series. This edition was published in 1995.
For readers of historical fiction and British literature, especially those interested in seventeenth-century England.
Dame Rosemary Jane Tremain is an English novelist, short story writer, and former Chancellor of the University of East Anglia. She as been the recipient of many prizes for her writing, including the Giles Cooper Award (1984), the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1992), the Whitbread Award (1999) and the Orange Prize (2008).
