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Restoration - Rose Tremain
I happened upon Restoration whilst browsing around my mother's retirement village library and because I've read a couple of Rose Tremain's books, asked mum to borrow it for me. What a fantastic book!
Restoration allows us a glimpse into the 1660s during the time of King Charles II's restoration to the throne after the republican rule of England led by Oliver Cromwell. It was a time of great excess and when we first meet the protagonist, Merivel he is beside himself with happiness after being taken into the King's Court as doctor to the King's dogs. When the King asks Merivel to marry one of his mistresses, Celia Clemence, in order to appease another of his mistresses, Barbara Castlemaine, Merivel jumps at the chance and is soon installed at Bidnold in Norfolk as Sir Robert.
At Bidnold, Merivel flits from one pastime to the other and when Celia is sent to Bidnold after the King tires of her he does the one thing he has been forbidden to do resulting in his being banished from Bidnold by the King and being forced back into the life he despised.
Rose Tremain has brought this period of history alive and I thoroughly enjoyed reading about Merivel's restoration.
Restoration allows us a glimpse into the 1660s during the time of King Charles II's restoration to the throne after the republican rule of England led by Oliver Cromwell. It was a time of great excess and when we first meet the protagonist, Merivel he is beside himself with happiness after being taken into the King's Court as doctor to the King's dogs. When the King asks Merivel to marry one of his mistresses, Celia Clemence, in order to appease another of his mistresses, Barbara Castlemaine, Merivel jumps at the chance and is soon installed at Bidnold in Norfolk as Sir Robert.
At Bidnold, Merivel flits from one pastime to the other and when Celia is sent to Bidnold after the King tires of her he does the one thing he has been forbidden to do resulting in his being banished from Bidnold by the King and being forced back into the life he despised.
Rose Tremain has brought this period of history alive and I thoroughly enjoyed reading about Merivel's restoration.
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