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A review by sawyerbell
Restoration by Rose Tremain
5.0
Meet Merivel, 17th century physician and fool, seeking love and happiness in the ‘restoration’ era of Charles II :“A year passed most profitably and pleasurably. My nature, I quickly understood, was in every particular well suited to life at Court. My fondness for gossip and laughter, my brimming appetites, my tendency to sartorial chaos and my trick of farting at will made me one of the most popular men at Whitehall.”
This is the story of a foolish yet endearing man whose vast enthusiasm for life and thirst for love become his undoing and then, after many trials, his salvation. I adored this book and was tempted to start re-reading it as soon as I'd read the last paragraph. It's story that makes you laugh at the same time as it makes you reflect on on its deeper questions on the meaning of life, love and happiness.
This is the story of a foolish yet endearing man whose vast enthusiasm for life and thirst for love become his undoing and then, after many trials, his salvation. I adored this book and was tempted to start re-reading it as soon as I'd read the last paragraph. It's story that makes you laugh at the same time as it makes you reflect on on its deeper questions on the meaning of life, love and happiness.