PoisonWritten in gorgeous prose that has the sheen of silk, Kathryn Harrison's POISON vividly reminds us of the persistence of desire and the sorcery of dreams. Francisca de Luarac, the daughter of a poor Spanish silk grower, is a dreamer of fabulous dreams. Marie Louise de Bourbon, the niece of Louis XIV, dances in slippers of fine Spanish silk in the French Court of the Sun King and imagines her own enchanted future. Born on the same dayin an age when

her perfect suitor may turn out to be love’s most unlikelycandidate—the fool

has a fiction writer examined the process of writing with such insight

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as well as the astonishing beauty of the connections that surround us

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all while staying on a budget

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