Viper Wine

byHermione Eyre

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'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

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

Mail on Sunday

About Hermione Eyre

Hermione Eyre is a writer and journalist whose first novel, Viper Wine, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2014 and shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. As a journalist, her interviewees include actors Carey Mulligan, Juliette Binoche and Robert Pattinson, and artists Howard Hodgkin, Grayson Perry and Gilbert and George. She once defended Joanna Lumley and Jonathan Miller from a gunman during an interview. For seven years she was a staff writer on the Independent on Sunday. She is now freelance, contributing to publications including The Times, Independent, Financial Times, ELLE, Harper's Bazaar, Christie's Magazine, and the London Evening Standard Magazine, where she is Contributing Editor. In 2005 she co-wrote The Dictionary of National Celebrity with the legendary author William Donaldson.
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  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • ISBN: 9781448155965
  • Length: 448 pages
  • Price: £4.99
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