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Beschreibung

Discover this bestselling classic from the author of The Gustav Sonata, charting Robert Merivel's rise and fall through glittering seventeenth-century society.

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...

'A most beautiful and original novel' Independent

'Triumphant' Sunday Telegraph


'Dazzling' New York Review of Books


*Rose Tremain has sold over ONE MILLION books. Enter her vivid historical world*

Discover this bestselling classic from the author of The Gustav Sonata, charting Robert Merivel's rise and fall through glittering seventeenth-century society.

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...

'A most beautiful and original novel' Independent

'Triumphant' Sunday Telegraph


'Dazzling' New York Review of Books


*Rose Tremain has sold over ONE MILLION books. Enter her vivid historical world*

Über den Autor
Rose Tremain's novels and short stories have been published in thirty countries and have won many awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Dylan Thomas Award (The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music & Silence) the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and France's Prix Femina (Sacred Country), and the South Bank Sky Arts Award (The Gustav Sonata). Her most recent novel is Absolutely and Forever (2023), which was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and a Dame in 2020. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 399 S.
ISBN-13: 9780099529637
ISBN-10: 0099529637
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Tremain, Rose
Hersteller: Vintage Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 201 x 129 x 29 mm
Von/Mit: Rose Tremain
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.07.2009
Gewicht: 0,29 kg
Artikel-ID: 101684438