num_pages: 337
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Transit of Venus
titlecomplete: The Transit of Venus
characters: Charmian Thrale, Cordelia Ware, Gwen Morphew, Major Bruce Ingot, Ted Tice, Armand Elphinstone, Sefton Thrale, Caroline Bell, Victor Locker, Paul Ivory, Clive Leadbetter, Ernesto Prata, Dora Bell, Angus Dance, Nicholas Cartledge, Adam Vail, Glad Pomfret, Christian Thrale, Josie Vail, Tertia Drage, Grace Bell, Margaret Tice
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Womens, Novels, Australia, Historical Fiction, Fiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 4045
places: London, England, England, Sydney, New South Wales, New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 315561600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction (Hardcover) (1982) & (Paperback)
publisher: Penguin Books