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Rose Tremain: Restoration (abridged)

Read by Rupert Degas

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... — Sunday Times More…
  • Release Date: 27th Jul 2009
  • Catalogue No: NA697612
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

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Rose Tremain: Restoration (Abridged)

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  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

I am, I discover, a very untidy man.

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There was a beginning to the story…

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3. My father was appointed glovemaker…

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4. It is not clear what started the fire…

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5. The fifth beginning is the strangest…

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On her wedding eve…

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How shall I describe my wedding?

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But I have not time to dwell on this…

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My stipend from the King as Celia's husband…

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The entry of Elias Finn into my life…

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The morning after the death of Minette…

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The following Friday, Finn did not appear…

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After several weeks had passed…

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Pearce then dismounted, staggered a pace or two…

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I will now tell you that it had become my daily habit…

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We stood staring at each other…

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When I awoke, very stiff and cold…

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I walked away from the Marigold Room…

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Some days passed during which I felt a welcome calm…

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See me, then, enter the Physic Garden.

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The King gets up off his stool…

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Dinner time found me at the Leg Tavern…

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That night at the Old House…

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So it was then that I entered the room…

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On Christmas day…

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I woke in some confusion.

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I began without more ado on the blood-letting…

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Two days later…

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Celia, in a dress of cream-coloured satin…

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It is now the 28th of January…

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I have slept a little.

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Whereas I had been boiling and burning…

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We rested two nights on our journey…

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I followed the King into the garden…

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And what of me?

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I have not returned to Bidnold…

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The New Bedlam, or Whittlesea Hospital…

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A month has passed.

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And so I come to 'John'…

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And so my first day at Whittlesea began.

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Before the meetings, the Six Keepers…

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I did not know that on the evening…

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With the coming in of the month of May…

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Some days after this a great storm moved in…

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Recollected now, that day when I lost Danseuse…

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Two days later, Katherine was returned to Margaret Fell.

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When I woke the day we were to have dancing…

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That night in William Harvey…

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After that evening's meeting…

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July came in…

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When I woke, on the morning after that first night…

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What I began that night…

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A coffin was made for Pearce that day…

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Towards midday of the 10th of September…

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That night, I did not sleep.

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The warm weather that had returned the previous day…

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It was only after several weeks of my wanderings…

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My birthday came again.

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As the astrologer had predicted…

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Then I began to give my orders…

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The baby was taken away by the midwife…

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On the evening of that day…

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Some weeks passed…

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I can report to you that during this summer of 1666…

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I do not remember how many days passed…

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I begin to speak…

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No sooner had I said this…

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I stood still for a moment in the street…

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On the morning of Monday…

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I parted from him and Francis Elizabeth…

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I found two cold, airy rooms…

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So we trot down into Bidnold village…

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I am barefoot…

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The King gave a hoot of laughter…

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