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The Transit of Venus

The richly evocative modern classic

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The Transit of Venus

By: Shirley Hazzard
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson, Shirley Hazzard
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Caro, gallant and adventurous, is one of two Australian sisters who have come to post-war England to seek their fortunes. Courted long and hopelessly by young scientist, Ted Tice, she is to find that love brings passion, sorrow, betrayal and finally hope. The milder Grace seeks fulfilment in an apparently happy marriage. But as the decades pass and the characters weave in and out of each other's lives, love, death and two slow-burning secrets wait in ambush for them.©1980 Shirley Hazzard

Accolades & Awards

National Book Critics Circle Award
1980
Genre Fiction Literary Fiction National Book Critics Circle Award

Critic reviews

An immense, involving love story . . . written with Hazzard's characteristic precision, attention to detail and culture
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