num_pages: 352
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Transit of Venus
titlecomplete: The Transit of Venus
characters: Tertia Drage, Major Bruce Ingot, Nicholas Cartledge, Charmian Thrale, Josie Vail, Gwen Morphew, Grace Bell, Ted Tice, Christian Thrale, Margaret Tice, Paul Ivory, Angus Dance, Clive Leadbetter, Glad Pomfret, Caroline Bell, Sefton Thrale, Victor Locker, Dora Bell, Ernesto Prata, Adam Vail, Cordelia Ware, Armand Elphinstone
genres: 20th Century, Australia, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Womens, Literature, Classics, British Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 4044
places: New York City, New York, England, London, England, Sydney, New South Wales
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: Virago