The Transit of Venus

Shirley Hazzard First published 1980

About this book

Caroline and Grace Bell, two 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.

Subjects

  • australia, fiction
  • australians
  • award:national_book_critics_circle_award=1980
  • award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fiction
  • england, fiction
  • fiction
  • fiction, family life
  • fiction, family life, general
  • fiction in english
  • national book critics circle award winner
  • new york times reviewed
  • sisters
  • sisters, fiction