Jul
17
2007
Author: Rose Tremain
ISBN: 9780340936436 DDC: 823.914
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I am, I discover, a very untidy man.
Look at me. Without my periwig, I am an affront to neatness.
Robert Merival, the narrator of Rose Tremain’s Restoration, is, at the start of this book, a 37 year old doctor. He is one of the king’s favourites, and is utterly devoted to Charles II himself. So much so that he agrees to marry the king’s mistress, Celia, in order to persuade another of the royal mistresses that she is out of the picture. In reality though Charles will continue to see her, and Merival must never fall in love with her. She may be married to Merival, but she is the king’s.
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