BABTblurb - Rose Tremain returns triumphantly to one of her best loved characters, in the long awaited sequel to her Booker short-listed best-selling novel, Restoration, published in 1989. Seventeen years after the events related in Restoration, Merivel, a man of wit, wisdom and not a little passion...
Very good and sympathetic portrait of a kind but flawed man 'tired of life', but, for me, just a tad too depressing.