Birth Of Venus

''Simply amazing, so brilliantly written . . . almost intolerably exciting at times, and at others, equally poignant'' ANTONIA FRASER

''A beautiful serpent of a novel, seductive and dangerous . . . consumes utterly - but the experience is all pleasure'' SIMON SCHAMA

''She writes like a painter, and thinks like a philosopher . . . a tour de force of storytelling'' AMANDA FOREMAN

''An erotic and gri...