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Restoration
by

Rose Tremain

Bettie's review

Oct 20, 2009

really liked it

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Re-visit via film

Robert Downey Jr. ... Robert Merivel
Sam Neill ... King Charles II
David Thewlis ... John Pearce
Polly Walker ... Celia Clemence
Meg Ryan ... Katharine
Ian McKellen ... Will Gates
Hugh Grant ... Elias Finn
Ian McDiarmid ... Ambrose

Didn't like the way they changed the site from Norfolk to Suffolk however the film was enjoyable with an outstanding performance by Meg Ryan.

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Opening line: I am, I discover, a very untidy man.

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It seems I like Rose Tremain:

4* Trespass
3* Short Stories
陇* Restoration

the rise/fall/rise life of Robert Merival

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Reading Progress

October 20, 2009 – Shelved

August 4, 2012 – Started Reading

August 4, 2012 –

page 14

3.65% "Moir茅 - a type of textile, traditionally of silk but now also of cotton or synthetic fiber, with a rippled or 'watered' appearance."

August 4, 2012 –

page 79

20.57% ""What do you know of Norfolk, Barbara?"

"Very little, except it is far from London."

"Precisely," smiles the King, "and therefore useful to me. It is there, you see, That I envoei all those I have begun to find tedious.""

August 6, 2012 –

page 263

68.49% ""

September 2, 2012 – Finished Reading