Venus of Dreams.
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The story is all about Iris and follows her from childhood through to adulthood and the amazing journey and single mindedness she exhibits to reach her goal, her dream, her dreams of VENUS.

The Earth is run by huge conglomerates who are currently terraforming Venus, changing it into a new Earth. this way they can ship new people there and continue their control and exploitation of them.

Iris knows non of this and dreams only of getting to Venus. along the way she will sacrifice the security of her matriarchal community, she will marry a man from the 'Projects' to aid her and she will have a baby and lose her way as a mother.
All so her dream can be achieved but will it be enough?

Written very well and moves along at a steady pace. at first Iris is not a very likable character but she soon changes, into a not very nice person at all!
only towards the end will she see exactly what she has given up and what the rue cost will really be.

I enjoyed this book and will read the other two in this trilogy if I come across them, but I will not go out of my way to find them.

Written by Pamela Sargent.