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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 the Prix Femina in France (Sacred Country) and the South Bank Sky Arts Award (The Gustav Sonata). Her most recent novel is Lily, a Richard and Judy Book Club selection. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and a Dame in 2020. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.Social, political and physical labyrinth
- Frances Osborne, Evening Standard
Satisfying... agreeably sardonic
- Quentin Letts, Daily Mail
One of the great imaginative creations in English literature
Daily Telegraph
An unadulterated delight
Independent
Rich and satisfying
- Lindsay Duguid, Sunday Times
A tour de force of literary technique, a treasure house of diligent research and imaginative ingenuity
- Jane Shilling, Telegraph
Wonderfully entertaining
- Michael Holroyd, Guardian, Books of the Year
Her feeling for the spirit of the times is triumphant
- Charlotte Moore, Spectator
A rich, glowing portrait
- Daisy Hay, Observer
Her characters laugh, cry, plot and flounder so convincingly that they take up residence in your head and refuse to go away
- Mary Crockett, Scotland on Sunday
‘One of the great imaginative creations in English literature’ Daily Telegraph
A dazzling novel of loyalty and dreams set in Restoration England.
The gaudy years of the Restoration are long gone and Robert Merivel, physician and courtier to King Charles II, sets off for the French court in search of a fresh start. But royal life at the Palace of Versailles – all glitter in front and squalor behind – leaves him in despair, until a chance encounter with the seductive Madame de Flamanville, allows him to dream of a different future.
But will that future ever be his? Summoned home urgently to attend to the ailing King, Merivel finds his loyalty and skill tested to their limits.
Rose Tremain has sold over one million copies of her books.
PRAISE FOR MERIVEL
‘This book is richly marbled with intelligence, compassion and compelling characters’ The Times
'Magnificent story-teller' Independent on Sunday
‘Wonderfully entertaining’ Michael Holroyd, Guardian Books of the Year