The Transit of Venus
- Authors
- Hazzard, Shirley
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Tags
- australians , sisters , classics , general , fiction
- ISBN
- 9780140107470
- Date
- 1980-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.56 MB
- Lang
- en
Caroline and Grace Bell, two beautiful orphan sisters eager to begin their lives in a new land, journey to England from Australia. What happens to these young women - seduction and abandonment, marriage and widowhood, love and betrayal - becomes as moving and wonderful and yet as predestined as the transits of the planets themselves.
*The Transit of Venus* is a story of place: Sydney, London, New York, Stockholm; of time: from the fifties to the eighties; and above all, of women and men in their passage through the displacements and absurdities of modern life.