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Rose Tremain: 'It's not all me, me, me'
Author Rose Tremain on keeping facts in and egos out of her historical novels. Rose speaks to Woman's Hour presenter Jane Garvey about her new novel which picks up the story of physician Robert Merivel, the protagonist of her much-loved earlier work, Restoration. In Merivel: A Man of His Time we find the doctor in the 1680s at the French court at Versailles.
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