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Book at Bedtime: Rose Tremain - Merivel: A Man of His Time

Book at Bedtime: Rose Tremain - Merivel: A Man of His Time: Episode 11

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Merivel - A Man of His Time

Episode 11

Rose Tremain - Merivel: A Man of His Time

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Merivel has sought out the beguiling Louise de Flamanville. Can she offer him solace?

Now in Switzerland, Merivel has sought out the beguiling Louise de Flamanville. Can she offer the solace he seeks? Read by Nicholas Woodeson.

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, is facing a crisis. Older and perhaps a little wiser, with his daughter now away at Court and his dearest friends ageing too, life on his Norfolk estate has ceased to satisfy. How to reinvigorate his life and find new purpose?

In today's episode: In a search for new purpose in his life, Merivel has left Bidnold and England behind and travelled to Switzerland in search of the beguiling Louise de Flamanville. She and her father have taken him into their home, and their hearts. Will that be solace enough?

The reader is the stage and screen actor Nicholas Woodeson.
The abridger was Sally Marmion and the producer was Di Speirs.

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Rose Tremain's dazzling and witty sequel to her Booker short-listed novel Restoration

Rose Tremain's dazzling and witty sequel to her Booker short-listed novel Restoration, read by Nicholas Woodeson

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