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The Transit of Venus
- Author
- Shirley Hazzard
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 23 January 2025
- Run Time
- 15 hours 53 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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An immense, involving love story . . . written with Hazzard's characteristic precision, attention to detail and culture
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Details
- Author
- Shirley Hazzard
- Narrator
- Juliet Stevenson, Shirley Hazzard
- Duration
- 15 hours 53 minutes
- Release Date
- 23 January 2025
- ISBN
- 9781405565301
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
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.
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