{"product_id":"venus-vanishing","title":"Venus, Vanishing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBlisteringly passionate, Venus, Vanishing by Rebecca Birrell is a page-turning debut novel of desire, art and the stories lost to the darkness of history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBerlin, 1928. Hannah is new to the pleasures and freedoms of the city.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe 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 reckless, yet life-changing, and it threatens to do more than ruin both of their reputations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAround them, people are disappearing. The shadows of something unspeakable are growing darker in the city. Hannah’s art could be the thing that secures her survival – or denies her any chance of escape.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘A radiant vision of art against evil... \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ea bold, moving novel’ - Megan Hunter, author of Days of Light,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘Wonderful. Alive with a deep, resonant tenderness’ - Elizabeth O’Connor, author of Whale Fall,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘Extraordinary. I didn’t want it to end’ - Doireann Ní Ghríofa, author of A Ghost in the Throat\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘Gripping, gorgeously written... I couldn't put it down’ - Joanna Quinn, author of The Whalebone Theatre‘\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'This vivid novel of 1930s Berlin asks what it means to make art in an emergency’ - Eleanor Catton, author of Birnam Wood \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rebecca Birrell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57521549803900,"sku":"9781035085767","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0427\/9412\/3414\/files\/9781035085767.jpg?v=1790785940","url":"https:\/\/www.queerlit.co.uk\/products\/venus-vanishing","provider":"Queer Lit","version":"1.0","type":"link"}