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Merivel a man of his time6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I was fortunate in having read it but had forgotten or half-forgotten a good deal of it, so the revisiting was a pleasure. If you hadn’t read Restoration, a lot of the reprising of the action in that book in this one would be annoying. It has the same central character, Sir Robert of that name – a randy, witty, somewhat cowardly but resourceful doctor, enjoying the favour of the king and a handsome estate he’s been granted for veterinary service to the royal spaniels. Merivel is a sequel set twenty years later. It was a romp through the early years of Charles II’s reign, with lots of sex, silk, satin and lace. When, in my constant search for a readable historical novel, I encountered Rose Tremain’s Restoration in 1980, my day was made (several days actually). ![]() This sequel to Restoration is a hectic, witty adventure set in seventeenth-century England and Europe. Tags: Charles II/ historical fiction/ Louis XIV/ Restoration ![]()
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