A delicious treat for readers of Restoration (bwl 26). If you haven't read it or forgotten the story, never mind, Tremain ingeniously fills in the gaps through the discovery of Merivel's old journal. Scene set, he now records, with Pepysian wit and gusto, a new set of escapades which take him to Versailles, outwardly golden, inwardly squalid, to his Norfolk Estates, a duel in Switzerland and finally to the Court of the ailing Charles II.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 73 Summer 2014 ) |
