Viper Wine

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Description

‘Wickedly funny’ The Times Famed beauty Venetia Stanley is so extravagantly dazzling she has inspired Ben Jonson to poetry and Van Dyck to painting, provoking adoration and emulation from the masses. Stampedes follow her arrival in town.However, as she approaches middle age, the attention turns to scrutiny. Her adoring husband Sir Kenelm Digby – philosopher, alchemist and time-traveller – wishes she would age naturally, but Venetia discovers a potent and addictive elixir of youth, Viper Wine. Set on the eve of the English Civil War, and based on a true story, this brilliant novel asks a very contemporary question: what is the cost of beauty? ‘Dazzling’ Observer ‘Intoxicating’ Independent on Sunday

Additional information

Weight 0.309 kg
Dimensions 2.7 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
by

Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

448

Publisher

Year Published

2015-3-5

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0099581663

About The Author

Hermione Eyre is a journalist and former croupier. She read English at Hertford College, Oxford and was a staff writer and TV critic at the Independent on Sunday for seven years, then chief interviewer at the London Evening Standard Magazine. This is her first novel.

Exuberantly inventive and intelligent… Sumptuous, strange and startlingly original.

Other text

An intoxicating fantasy in which real-life characters are haunted by the future.

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