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Merivel

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099548430

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 245g

  • RRP: £9.99

Merivel

  • A Man of His Time

‘One of the great imaginative creations in English literature’ Daily Telegraph

A dazzling novel of loyalty and dreams set in Restoration England.

The gaudy years of the Restoration are long gone and Robert Merivel, physician and courtier to King Charles II, sets off for the French court in search of a fresh start. But royal life at the Palace of Versailles – all glitter in front and squalor behind – leaves him in despair, until a chance encounter with the seductive Madame de Flamanville, allows him to dream of a different future.

But will that future ever be his? Summoned home urgently to attend to the ailing King, Merivel finds his loyalty and skill tested to their limits.

Rose Tremain has sold over one million copies of her books.

PRAISE FOR MERIVEL
‘This book is richly marbled with intelligence, compassion and compelling characters’ The Times
'Magnificent story-teller' Independent on Sunday
‘Wonderfully entertaining’ Michael Holroyd, Guardian Books of the Year

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099548430

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 245g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • Social, political and physical labyrinth

    Frances Osborne, Evening Standard

  • Satisfying... agreeably sardonic

    Quentin Letts, Daily Mail

  • One of the great imaginative creations in English literature

    Daily Telegraph

  • An unadulterated delight

    Independent

  • Rich and satisfying

    Lindsay Duguid, Sunday Times

  • A tour de force of literary technique, a treasure house of diligent research and imaginative ingenuity

    Jane Shilling, Telegraph

  • Wonderfully entertaining

    Michael Holroyd, Guardian, Books of the Year

  • Her feeling for the spirit of the times is triumphant

    Charlotte Moore, Spectator

  • A rich, glowing portrait

    Daisy Hay, Observer

  • Her characters laugh, cry, plot and flounder so convincingly that they take up residence in your head and refuse to go away

    Mary Crockett, Scotland on Sunday

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About the Author

Rose Tremain

Rose Tremain’s novels and short stories have been published in thirty countries and have won many 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 a Sunday Times Top 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 and a Dame in 2020. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes. www.rosetremain.co.uk

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