The Transit of VenusBy: Shirley Hazzard The award winning, New York Times bestselling literary masterpiece of Shirley Hazzardthe story of two beautiful orphan sisters whose fates are as moving and wonderful, and yet as predestined, as the transits of the planets themselves A Penguin Classic Considered "one of the great English language novels of the twentieth century" (The Paris Review), The Transit of Venus follows Caroline and Grace Bell as they leave Australia to