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I wonder how many more of those unexpected gems there are on my shelves.
This is mind you, not the book by Rose Tremain that has been gathering dust on my shelf since perhaps the discovery of paper � but another one, the one that audible had in its plus collection.
Listening to it has been an absolute delight. I loved everything about it, including eventually the acquired taste, anti-hero narrator Merivel.
When the story begins in the middle of 16-hundreds England, he is a young physician and a son to the royal glove-maker at the court of King Charles II. After a chance encounter and introduction to the king, he attracts HM’s attention, as a perfect person to assist him with a precarious problem. The gratification for helping the king is significant, even if the resulting situation isn’t exactly flattering. But self-centered Merivel perhaps doesn’t fully realise, and by the time he does, basking in the addictive light of the king's majesty and grace, is ultimately more important than any kind of personal pride. Then suddenly circumstances change, and fate decides to give Merivel a lesson - or a chance - to discover his own road, quite independent of the attention and appreciation of others. Merivel grows as a person and into my liking so by the time I finished I was addicted and lost in Rose Tremain’s magical prose, and strongly unwilling to let it go.