. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Fiction" . "Fiction"@en . "The transit of Venus"@en . . . . . . . . "The transit of venus" . . "Family chronicles" . "The transit of venus"@en . . . "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."@en . . . "Australia" . .