Venus, Vanishing by Rebecca Birrell Fiction and so damned smart

and so damned smart

but challenging the status quo just might put a target on her back

When Gideon March tells her she was bitten by a werewolf

There’s something more sinful than lust at play

Slobber on her water bowl

Venus, Vanishing by Rebecca Birrell Fiction and so damned smartGripping, gorgeously written. Joanna Quinn, author of The Whalebone Theatre Extraordinary. Elizabeth O'Connor, author of Whale Fall Vivid Asking what it means to make art in an emergency. Eleanor Catton, author of Birnam Wood and The Luminaries Portrait of a Lady on Fire meets The Safekeep in this gripping debut that reckons with art forgery, desire, suspicion, and resistance In raucous 1928 Berlin, Hannah Sherman has deviated from the traditional arc