Restoration
By (author): "Rose Tremain"
Publish Date:
1989
ISBN0140244883
ISBN139780140244885
AsinRestoration
CharactersCharles II of England, Scotland and Ireland, Robert Merivel
Original titleRestoration
SeriesRestoration #1
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.