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Rose Tremain talks to John Mullan
The British Council Series 4; Fictions – Merivel
Hay Festival 2013,
The novelist brings back her hero of Restoration: Robert Merivel, physician and courtier to Charles II, loved for his gift to turn sorrow into laughter, now faces the agitations and anxieties of middle age.