Viper Wine

Hermione Eyre

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English

Vintage
15 March 2015

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

A richly evocative and playful story of beauty, vanity and addiction, set at a time when England was on the cusp between magic and science.

'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

By: Hermione Eyre
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 309g
ISBN: 9780099581666
ISBN 10: 0099581663
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 15 March 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Viper Wine

Exuberantly inventive and intelligent... Sumptuous, strange and startlingly original. Mail on Sunday An intoxicating fantasy in which real-life characters are haunted by the future. -- Marcus Field Independent on Sunday Using an alchemy all of her own, Eyre's postmodern take on the 17th century renders it dazzlingly fresh and contemporary. -- Lucy Scholes Observer Playful, witty and expansive... An exceptionally clever and exhilarating excursion through Caroline high society. -- Nick Rennison Sunday Times A genre-defying debut novel... Vivid and vivacious - hats off to Eyre. -- Sebastian Shakespeare Tatler Bold and wildly original, Viper Wine is an exuberantly witty play on the vanity and ghoulishness of the beauty industry, and a celebration of the unfading beauty of language... Hermione Eyre has injected new youth into the historical novel. -- Frances Wilson Evening Standard