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Merivel
Rose Tremain
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Description for Merivel
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 256.
From the author of The Gustav Sonata The wonderful new historical novel set in seventeenth-century England from Rose Tremain, author of Restoration (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), The Road Home (winner of the Orange Prize) and Trespass (a Richard & Judy pick). Merivel has been called `wonderfully entertaining' (Guardian Books of the Year) and `an unadulterated delight' (Independent) and has been shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. The gaudy years of the Restoration are long gone and Robert Merivel, physician and courtier to King Charles II, sets off for the French ... Read more
From the author of The Gustav Sonata The wonderful new historical novel set in seventeenth-century England from Rose Tremain, author of Restoration (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), The Road Home (winner of the Orange Prize) and Trespass (a Richard & Judy pick). Merivel has been called `wonderfully entertaining' (Guardian Books of the Year) and `an unadulterated delight' (Independent) and has been shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. The gaudy years of the Restoration are long gone and Robert Merivel, physician and courtier to King Charles II, sets off for the French ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099548430
SKU
V9780099548430
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About Rose Tremain
Rose Tremain's 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 ... Read more
Reviews for Merivel
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
... Read more
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
... Read more