Venus Reborn
| By: | Martina Devlin |
| Publisher: | Poolbeg |
| Published: | July 2003 |
| Pages: | 388 |
| Categories: | Fiction |
| Language: | English |
| Available as: | Paperback |
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"There is no shame in being adopted. It means you were wanted. And chosen." Venus Macken is back in Ireland after more than a decade in London, but she has mixed feelings about the move. Except ... her return to the wilds of Roancarrick to care for her elderly father offers the chance to find answers. Answers to a question that has haunted Venus all her life. Venus is tired of feeling like an outsider. Who was her birth mother? Why was she abandoned? Surely the people who love her and reared her can help unlock the riddle of who she is. Meanwhile there are distractions, among them arrogant artist Conor Landers, who helps rekindle Venus's love for her childhood home. As the sketchy details of what happened on a stormy night 32 years ago are drawn out, Venus begins to realise that knowing who she is matters less than understanding who she wants to be.
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