num_pages: 384
description: Robert Merivel is a dissolute young medical student when an accident of fate leads him to the attention of King Charles II. Finding favour with the King, Merivel embarks on the time of his life, enthusiastically enjoying the luxury, women and wine of the vibrant royal court, until he is called upon to serve his monarch in an unusual role. However, when he fails at the one thing the King demands of him he is cast out from his new-found paradise. Determined to be restored to the King’s favour, Merivel begins a journey to self-knowledge that takes him to the depths of seventeenth-century society.
title: Restoration
titlecomplete: Restoration
characters: Robert Merivel, Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland
genres: Fiction, Historical, British Literature, 17th Century, Romance, Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 6040
places: Norfolk, England
series: Restoration
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Sunday Express Book of the Year
publisher: Sinclair-Stevenson