Rose Tremain 
Restoration 
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lily

The bestselling classic from a ‘magnificent story-teller’ (Independent on Sunday). Journey to the glittering seventeenth-century court, and witness the rise and fall of young, charming Robert Merivel…When a twist of fate delivers an ambitious young medical student to the court of King Charles II, he is suddenly thrust into a vibrant world of luxury and opulence. Blessed with a quick wit and sparkling charm, Robert Merivel rises quickly, soon finding favour with the King, and privileged with a position as paper groom to the youngest of the King s mistresses. But by falling in love with her, Merivel transgresses the one rule that will cast him out from his new-found paradise ‘For a vivid and funny fictional re-creation of the era, Tremain s Restoration is hard to beat.’ The Times Rose Tremain has sold over one million copies of her books.