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Viper wine : a novel / Hermione Eyre.

by Eyre, Hermione.

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London ; New York : Hogarth, c2014.

Stanley, Venetia, -1633 -- Fiction.

Digby, Kenelm, 1603-1665 -- Fiction.

Courts and courtiers -- Fiction.

Beauty, Personal -- History -- Fiction.

Great Britain -- History -- Charles I, 1625-1649 -- Fiction.

9780553419351 :

412 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

First American edition.

At Whitehall Palace in 1632, the ladies at the court of Charles I are beginning to look suspiciously alike. Plump cheeks, dilated pupils, and a heightened sense of pleasure are the first signs that they have been drinking a potent new beauty tonic, Viper Wine, distilled and discreetly dispensed by the physician Lancelot Choice. Famed beauty Venetia Stanley's "mid-climacteric" approaches, and she fears her powers are waning. Her devoted husband, Sir Kenelm Digby - alchemist, explorer, philosopher, courtier, and time-traveller - believes he has the means to cure wounds from a distance, but he so loves his wife that he will not make her a beauty tonic, convinced she has no need of it. From the whispering court at Whitehall, to the charlatan physicians of Eastcheap, here is a marriage in crisis, and a country on the brink of civil war.

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