[Annotatie]: A major new novel from the Orange Prize winning author, this is the sequel to her acclaimed historical fiction }Restoration{, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989. Robert Merivel, courtier to Charles II, is no longer a young man, but he goes off to France in search of the Sun King and to Switzerland in pursuit of a handsome woman.'Surely one of the most versatile novelists writing today' }Daily Express