Restoration | Rose Tremain

Descriere

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 "