{"product_id":"the-transit-of-venus-the-richly-evocative-modern-classic-9780349020907","title":"The Transit of Venus: The richly evocative modern classic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe award-winning literary masterpiece of Shirley Hazzard - the story of two beautiful orphan sisters whose fates are as moving and wonderful, and yet as predestined, as the transits of the planets themselves. Now reissued as a Virago Classic with Bite\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003ePARIS REVIEW\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003ci\u003eThe Transit of Venus\u003c\/i\u003e is astronomical: as sharp, remote and dazzling as a celestial body' \u003c\/b\u003eLAUREN GROFF\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A wonderfully mysterious book . . . unforgettably rich'\u003c\/b\u003e ANNE TYLER\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Epic and microscopic . . . stitched in prose of gorgeously sustained intensity' \u003c\/b\u003eGEOFF DYER\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwo sisters, Caroline and Grace Bell, leave Australia to begin a new life in post-war England. Courted long and hopelessly by young scientist, Ted Tice, strong-willed Caro is to find that love brings both betrayal and hope. The milder Grace seeks fulfilment in an apparently happy marriage. But as the decades pass and their paths weave and cross across the world - from Sydney to London, New York to Stockholm - two slow-burning secrets wait in ambush for them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShirley Hazzard's breathtaking masterpiece is an intricately plotted Greek tragedy, a sweeping family saga, and a desperate love story.\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9780349020907\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 31 Mar 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Little, Brown Book Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 19.6(H)x12.6(L)x2.6(W)291\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): 291\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eShirley Hazzard (1931-2016) was born in Australia and travelled the world during her early years, a result of her parents' diplomatic postings. In 1947, at the age of sixteen, she was engaged by British intelligence to monitor the civil war in China. At twenty, she moved to New York, working for the United Nations throughout much of the 1950s, which included a posting to Naples. Muriel Spark introduced her to the translator and biographer Francis Steegmuller, whom Hazzard married in 1963. Her novels \u003ci\u003eThe Bay of Noon \u003c\/i\u003e(1971) and \u003ci\u003eThe Transit of Venus\u003c\/i\u003e (1981) were National Book Award finalists, while her last novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 2003 National Book Award, Miles Franklin Award and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. She was also the author of two collections of short stories, and several works of nonfiction including the memoir \u003ci\u003eGreene on Capri\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003eAn immense, involving love story . . . written with Hazzard's characteristic precision, attention to detail and culture * Country and Town House *","brand":"Shirley Hazzard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48544239616217,"sku":"9780349020907","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/9780349020907.jpg?v=1776451979","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/the-transit-of-venus-the-richly-evocative-modern-classic-9780349020907","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}