Robert Merivel, son of a glove maker and an aspiring physician, finds his fortunes transformed when he is given a position at the court of King Charles II. Merivel slips easily into a life of luxury and idleness, enthusiastically enjoying the women and wine of the vibrant Restoration age. But when he's called on to serve the king in an unusual role, he transgresses the one law that he is forbidden to break and is brutally cast out from his newfound paradise. Thus begins Merivel's journey to self-knowledge, which will take him down into the lowest depths of seventeenth-century society.

Author: Rose Tremain
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/15/2013
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780393345988

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.1
Point Value: 23
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 65225 / Restoration: A Novel of Seventeenth-Century England

About the Author
Tremain, Rose: - Rose Tremain's prize-winning books, including The Road Home, The Gustav Sonata, Merivel, and The American Lover, have been published in thirty countries. Chancellor of the University of East Anglia, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and member of the Royal Society of Literature, she lives in Norfolk, England with the biographer Richard Holmes.