Viper Wine A Novel Author:Hermione Eyre ?Using an alchemy all of her own, Eyre?s postmodern take on the 17th century renders it dazzlingly fresh and contemporary.? ?Guardian (UK) — — Venetia Stanley was the great beauty of her day; so dazzling she inspired Ben Jonson to poetry and Van Dyck to painting. But now she is married and the adoration to which she has become accustomed has cur... more »dled to scrutiny, and she fears her powers are waning. Her devoted husband, Sir Kenelm Digby?explorer, diplomat, philosopher, alchemist? refuses to prepare a beauty tonic for her, insisting on her continued perfection.
Venetia, desperate for a cure, secretly engages an apothecary to sell her ?viper wine??a strange potion said to bolster the blood and invigorate the skin. The results are instant, glorious, and addictive, and soon the ladies of the court of Charles I are looking unnaturally youthful. But there is a terrible price to be paid, as science clashes with magic, puritans rebel against the decadent court of Charles I, and England slides into civil war.
Based on real events, Viper Wine is an intoxicating brew of love, longing and vanity, and depicts London as you have never seen it before.« less
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