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Item Information       Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content     More by this author     Eyre, Hermione.     Subjects     Stanley, Venetia, -1633 -- Fiction.     Beauty, Personal -- Fiction.     Pride and vanity -- Fiction.     Courts and courtiers -- Fiction.     England -- Social life and customs -- 17th century -- Fiction.     Great Britain -- History -- Charles I, 1625-1649 -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Eyre, Hermione.       by title:      Viper wine : a novel...       by call number:      FICTION EYR     Search the Web     Eyre, Hermione.     Stanley, Venetia, -1633 -- Fiction.     Beauty, Personal -- Fiction.     Pride and vanity -- Fiction.     Courts and courtiers -- Fiction.     England -- Social life and customs -- 17th century -- Fiction.     Great Britain -- History -- Charles I, 1625-1649 -- Fiction.       MARC Display

Viper wine : a novel / Hermoine Eyre. by Eyre, Hermione. Hogarth c2015. Call #: FICTION EYR Subjects Stanley, Venetia, -1633 -- Fiction.   Beauty, Personal -- Fiction.   Pride and vanity -- Fiction.   Courts and courtiers -- Fiction.   England -- Social life and customs -- 17th century -- Fiction.   Great Britain -- History -- Charles I, 1625-1649 -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780553419351 0553419358 Description:  x, 412 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Summary:  "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, the adoration to which she has become accustomed has curdled 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, growing desperate, 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 monarchy, and England slides into civil war. Based on real events and written with anachronistic verve, 'Viper Wine' is an intoxicating brew of love, longing and vanity, where the 17th and 21st centuries mix and mingle in the most enchanting and mind-bending ways."--Publisher. Genre:  Historical fiction. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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