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'A most beautiful and original novel' Independent

About the Author

Rose Tremain's bestselling novels have been published in thirty countries and have won many awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music & Silence) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Sacred Country); Restoration was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and was appointed Chancellor of the University of East Anglia in 2013. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes. www.rosetremain.co.uk

Reviews

For a vivid – and funny – fictional re-creation of the era, Tremain’s Restoration is hard to beat.
*The Times*

Richly evocative novel.
*BBC History Magazine*

Triumphant
*Sunday Telegraph*

Gripping
*Herald*

A most beautiful and original novel
*Independent*

For a vivid - and funny - fictional re-creation of the era, Tremain's Restoration is hard to beat. * The Times *
Richly evocative novel. * BBC History Magazine *
Triumphant * Sunday Telegraph *
Gripping * Herald *
A most beautiful and original novel * Independent *

Restoration is all that its title implies: a tale of the restoration of gaiety, self-indulgence, and worldiness after the austerity of the Puritan regime; the restoration of energy and life to London after the plague and the Great Fire; and the restoration of purpose and meaning to the life of Robert Merivel after King Charles II withdraws the patronage which had plunged it into enervating luxury. It is a beautifully crafted work in which almost every event and character, as well as the narrator's relationship with the reader, richly illuminate Merivel's life and temperament. Exquisite balance and symmetry as well as passages of lyrical description are certain to please discriminating readers. British author Tremain has written Letter to Sister Benedicta (LJ 9/1/79) and The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories (LJ 5/15/84), among other works.-- Cynthia Johnson Whealler, Cary Memorial Lib., Lexington, Mass.