Venus, Vanishing by Rebecca Birrell: Art, deception and desire in 1930s Berlin
A life in books | 17.07.2026 14:22
I snapped up Rebecca Birrell’s Venus, Vanishing, as soon as it was pitched to me. Opening in Berlin just as Hitler’s rise in popularity has begun, art historian Birrell’s first novel follows eighteen-year-old Hannah Sherman, determined to become an artist rather than marry into a life of domestic drudgery.
