Merivel: A Man of His Time (Audiobook)

from TheEllieMo

This was my first experience of the work of Rosé Tremain, which means that, though this book revisits characters first introduced in1989 in Restoration, it is the first time I have become acquainted with Merivel. I can categorically say that this had no impact at all on my enjoyment of this seque...

from pierthinker

Merivel has reached into high echelons in English society, partly through his own skills and talents (mainly for making the King, Charles II, laugh) and partly through his acquiescence in underhand schemes (he marries the King's mistress to hide the affair from the rests of society). He is reason...

from Smiler69

This book picks up 15 years after King Charles II has restored Robert Merivel to his former grand house, Bidnold, in Norfolk. Both the King and Merivel, as well as his faithful servant Will Gates, are aging; Merivel is now 56 and his daughter Margaret has grown into a graceful beauty whom he is v...

from Nuigurumi

Es ist das Jahr 1683. Sir Robert Merivel war einmal Arzt am Hofe Charles II., aber jetzt ist er in die Jahre gekommen, seine einzige Tochter wird erwachsen und er fragt sich, was sein Lebensabend ihm bringen wird. Er ist noch nicht bereit, sich zur Ruhe zu setzen, sondern möchte noch etwas erlebe...

from Cariola

I note that when I first set down my Story, I speculated that there may have been more than one Beginning to it. I suggested indeed Five Beginnings. For I understood then that no life begins only when it begins, but has many additional inceptions, and each of these determine the course of what is...