Merivel: A Man of His Time Audiobook

Quotes

• “What ultimately makes the book such a joy is simply being in Merivel’s company. His narration is by turns rueful, comic, despairing, and joyful; but it’s always bursting with life, always good-hearted—and always entirely loveable.”

  — Daily Mail (London)

• “Robert Merivel is one of the great imaginative creations in English literature of the past fifty years. [Merivel is] as rich and as dazzling as its predecessor—steeped in wise and witty reflection on the great mysteries of life, and the timeless, futile hopes and follies.”

  — Daily Telegraph (London)

• “Richly marbled with intelligence, compassion, and compelling characters, leavened with flourishes of lyricism and an attractive tolerance towards human frailties.”

  — Times (London)

• “When he appeared in 1989, Merivel was truly the man of the Thatcherite moment, an individualistic, hedonistic creature who held up a mirror to his audience. So does he still have something to say to us in 2012? Resoundingly, yes.”

  — Observer (London)

• “In a droll tone, Sean Barrett delivers the fictional autobiography of Robert Merivel, physician to kings, as he reflects on his life from the mid- to the late 1600s…As Barrett recounts the quotidian dealings and events of the doctor’s life, his fluid performance draws the listener into Merivel’s story.”

  — AudioFile