Restoration Study Guide consists of approx. 61 pages of summaries and analysis on Restoration by Rose Tremain. Browse the literature study guide below:
The title "Beginnings" (plural) accurately describes Chapter 1. The year is 1664. We meet Robert Merivel, in the first person. He first describes his thirty-seven-year-old body in very disparaging terms. He is very dissatisfied with all his appendages and describes his stomach as large and freckled and looking like a flight of moths has landed on it. He is balding and wears a wig, which often becomes sweaty and itchy. (read more)
