The Remedy
1st Edition
Published on 3. June 2013
448 pages
978-1-4088-4282-9 (ISBN)
Description
'So at fifteen, spread belly-down upon the floor, a black sheet hunched over me and a candle at my foot and head, my lips pressed on stone, litanies in my ears as the priest broke and entered my shocked fist to slide the ring on my finger, I promised to take no other husband than Christ. I almost meant it. In that heady moment the vow seemed no great sacrifice: I'd never known a man, but I had tasted chocolate.'
One unforgettable night in 1785, in a theatre in Drury Lane, the heady alchemy of love and murder suddenly fuses the lives of Mimosina Dolcezza, a Venetian actress, and Valentine Greatrakes, prince of London's medical underworld.
The Remedy is a ravishing love story that seamlessly weaves fiction with historical fact in rich and details prose.
One unforgettable night in 1785, in a theatre in Drury Lane, the heady alchemy of love and murder suddenly fuses the lives of Mimosina Dolcezza, a Venetian actress, and Valentine Greatrakes, prince of London's medical underworld.
The Remedy is a ravishing love story that seamlessly weaves fiction with historical fact in rich and details prose.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-4282-9 (9781408842829)
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Michelle Lovric
The Remedy
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06/2015
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Michelle Lovric is the author of four novels - Carnevale, The Floating Book (winner of a London Arts Award and chosen as a WH Smith Read of the Week), The Book of Human Skin (a TV Book Club pick in 2011), and, most recently, The True and Splendid History of the Harristown Sisters, as well as four children's books. Her book Love Letters: An Anthology of Passion was a New York Times bestseller. She divides her time between London and Venice. www.michellelovric.com
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Part One
- Venice, 1768
- 1 An Anodyne Epithem
- 2 An Emmenagogue Decoction
- 3 Emmenagogue Pills
- 4 Balsamic Lozenges
- 5 A Refrigerating Expression
- 6 A Consolating Mixture
- 7 A Julep for Child-Bed Women
- 8 A Camphorate Electuary
- 9 A Draught for a Bruise
- Part Two
- London, late November 1785
- 1 A Traumatic Infusion
- 2 Spleen Ale
- 3 Horse-Dung Water
- 4 Antiphthisic Decoction
- 5 Consummate Broth
- 6 An Electuary of Satyrion
- 7 The Decoction Called Sacrum
- 8 Analeptic Electuary
- 9 An Antiloimick Decoction
- 10 A Cataplasm in a Quinsy Sore Throat
- 11 A Traumatic Decoction
- 12 Wafers of Tamarinds
- 13 An Alexipharmac Draught
- 14 Diuretic Ale
- Part Three
- Venice, 1769
- 1 A Warm Cardiac Electuary
- 2 A Golden Julep
- 3 A Gargle with Myrrh
- 4 An Hysteric Electuary
- 5 A Cordial Epithem
- 6 A Cephalic Julep
- 7 A Litus for the Face
- Part Four
- Venice, January 1786
- 1 A Cephalic Electuary
- 2 An Icteric Decoction
- 3 An Electuary of Mustard
- 4 A Cataplasm of Herrings
- 5 A Consolatory Draught
- Part Five
- London and Venice, January 1786
- 1 A Solid Errhine
- 2 A Cordial Julep
- 3 Pectoral Snail Water
- 4 A Quilt for a Cap
- 5 An Expression of Millipedes
- 6 A Paste for Aphthae
- 7 A Sweetening Scorbutick Ale
- 8 A Decoction of the Woods
- 9 A Temperate Pearl Cordial Julep
- 10 A Pacific Mixture
- 11 A Cataplasm of Bitters
- 12 A Comforting Glyster
- 13 A Cordial Caudle
- 14 An Hysteric Nodule
- Part Six
- London ... and Venice, February 1786
- 1 An Hemoptoic Draught
- 2 A Balsam called Mirabile
- 3 A Foment for the Pain of Haemorrhoids
- 4 A Draught for a Catarrh
- 5 A Balsamic Bolus
- 6 Peruvian Antihectic Lozenges
- 7 A Peruvian Epileptic Electuary
- 8 Splanchnic Powder
- 9 Sternutatory Powder
- Part Seven
- Venice, March 1786
- 1 Chalybeate Syrup
- 2 A Cataplasm of Webs
- 3 Unguent for Shrinking of the Sinews
- 4 Restorative Caudle
- 5 A Pacific Foment
- 6 An Alexiterial Julep
- Epilogue Venice, March 1787
- Historical Notes London and Venice, Winter 1785/6
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on the Author
- Also by Michelle Lovric
- eCopyright
