Venus, Vanishing

The world of 1930ss Berlin becomes a lethal game of survival for two women consumed by desire and art, in a blisteringly passionate and defiant story of resistance.

Blisteringly passionate, Venus, Vanishing by Rebecca Birrell is a page-turning debut novel of desire, art, and the stories lost to the darkness of history.

This vivid novel of 1930s Berlin asks what it means to make art in an emergency – Eleanor Catton, author of Birnam Wood

Berlin, 1928. Hannah is new to the pleasures and freedoms of the city. She is a fledgling artist, a runaway, building a new life for herself in its galleries and clubs, and, at last, loving without boundaries.

But soon the party will be coming to an end. A consuming affair with her patron, Elke the imperious wife of a powerful man is reckles