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Rose Tremain: Restoration (abridged)

Read by Rupert Degas

Rose Tremain: Restoration (abridged)
There is a heartstopping passage in Restoration, at our hero and narrator Robert Merivel’s wedding feast. He describes how, as his father-in-law plays an air of intense melancholy on his viola...

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Rose Tremain: Restoration (abridged)

Read by Rupert Degas

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There is a heartstopping passage in Restoration, at our hero and narrator Robert Merivel’s wedding feast. He describes how, as his father-in-law plays an air of intense melancholy on his viola...

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The award-winning Restoration is one of Rose Tremain’s most popular works, and showcases her remarkable talent for capturing historical settings and personalities. Set during the English Restoration in the decadent court of King Charles II, the novel weaves a story of corrupted innocence, betrayal, love and hope against a fascinating historical backdrop. Written in the first person, the fortunes of the fallible but charismatic courtier Robert Merivel are utterly compelling. Restoration lyrically evokes the rich tapestry of seventeenth-century London life.

  • Release date: 27th Jul 2009
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Catalogue number: NA697612
  • Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Contents and tracklist

Rose Tremain: Restoration (Abridged)
Work length6:50:19
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
I am, I discover, a very untidy man.
Track length3:47
There was a beginning to the story…
Track length6:45
3. My father was appointed glovemaker…
Track length7:04
4. It is not clear what started the fire…
Track length7:27
5. The fifth beginning is the strangest…
Track length6:00
On her wedding eve…
Track length4:52
How shall I describe my wedding?
Track length6:10
But I have not time to dwell on this…
Track length5:12
My stipend from the King as Celia's husband…
Track length6:50
The entry of Elias Finn into my life…
Track length4:25
The morning after the death of Minette…
Track length4:41
The following Friday, Finn did not appear…
Track length6:08
After several weeks had passed…
Track length4:20
Pearce then dismounted, staggered a pace or two…
Track length4:45
I will now tell you that it had become my daily habit…
Track length4:09
We stood staring at each other…
Track length6:53
When I awoke, very stiff and cold…
Track length5:29
I walked away from the Marigold Room…
Track length2:31
Some days passed during which I felt a welcome calm…
Track length5:30
See me, then, enter the Physic Garden.
Track length6:31
The King gets up off his stool…
Track length5:44
Dinner time found me at the Leg Tavern…
Track length7:17
That night at the Old House…
Track length5:59
So it was then that I entered the room…
Track length6:49
On Christmas day…
Track length4:53
I woke in some confusion.
Track length4:56
I began without more ado on the blood-letting…
Track length4:00
Two days later…
Track length5:53
Celia, in a dress of cream-coloured satin…
Track length7:37
It is now the 28th of January…
Track length5:38
I have slept a little.
Track length5:57
Whereas I had been boiling and burning…
Track length4:22
We rested two nights on our journey…
Track length5:42
I followed the King into the garden…
Track length5:03
And what of me?
Track length4:45
I have not returned to Bidnold…
Track length4:12
The New Bedlam, or Whittlesea Hospital…
Track length5:04
A month has passed.
Track length5:02
And so I come to 'John'…
Track length3:34
And so my first day at Whittlesea began.
Track length6:16
Before the meetings, the Six Keepers…
Track length5:01
I did not know that on the evening…
Track length6:34
With the coming in of the month of May…
Track length4:39
Some days after this a great storm moved in…
Track length4:59
Recollected now, that day when I lost Danseuse…
Track length5:53
Two days later, Katherine was returned to Margaret Fell.
Track length4:56
When I woke the day we were to have dancing…
Track length6:04
That night in William Harvey…
Track length5:41
After that evening's meeting…
Track length6:50
July came in…
Track length5:52
When I woke, on the morning after that first night…
Track length6:37
What I began that night…
Track length4:01
A coffin was made for Pearce that day…
Track length4:01
Towards midday of the 10th of September…
Track length7:26
That night, I did not sleep.
Track length6:36
The warm weather that had returned the previous day…
Track length7:02
It was only after several weeks of my wanderings…
Track length6:35
My birthday came again.
Track length7:52
As the astrologer had predicted…
Track length4:17
Then I began to give my orders…
Track length5:11
The baby was taken away by the midwife…
Track length4:50
On the evening of that day…
Track length5:07
Some weeks passed…
Track length6:46
I can report to you that during this summer of 1666…
Track length5:00
I do not remember how many days passed…
Track length5:44
I begin to speak…
Track length6:41
No sooner had I said this…
Track length3:52
I stood still for a moment in the street…
Track length5:04
On the morning of Monday…
Track length4:05
I parted from him and Francis Elizabeth…
Track length5:29
I found two cold, airy rooms…
Track length6:26
So we trot down into Bidnold village…
Track length5:51
I am barefoot…
Track length6:35
The King gave a hoot of laughter…
Track length4:30

Awards and reviews

There is a heartstopping passage in Restoration, at our hero and narrator Robert Merivel’s wedding feast. He describes how, as his father-in-law plays an air of intense melancholy on his viola da gamba, he is overcome with an unhappiness so profound he has to run outside and weep. This epiphany is described to the strains of that very piece, John Dowland’s Flow my Tears, one of the most powerful uses of music I have ever heard on an audio production.
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