A review by suzie_woo
Restoration by Rose Tremain

adventurous emotional funny reflective slow-paced

4.5

Bought this mainly for the pretty cover and first page. I have a love hate relationship with this book, though more love given that I bought the second book straight after finishing it. This was 400 pages. It felt like 1000. I think I just spent a long time getting into the flow of the language (not used to how it was written, as it was written as more of a classic and in a very different time period) and getting into the flow of the story. Other than that, I really enjoyed it. I think Merivel was a wonderfully written character who was flawed but at the same time I didn't hate him (surprising given some of the things he did). There were lots of times when I also marvelled at the authors writing, which I found very beautiful and sad and thought provoking.