The natural history of love /
Petit, Caroline,
The natural history of love / Caroline Petit. - South Melbourne, VIC : Affirm Press, 2022. - 398 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes reading group questions.
When Melbourne lawyer Nathan Smithson takes on the case of mad, wealthy Edward Fonçeca's inheritance trial against his ruthless brother in 1902, he must unearth long-buried family secrets to have any chance of winning. Brazil, 1852: François, the Count de Castelnau and French Consul to Bahia falls dangerously ill on a naturalist expedition and is delivered by a rainforest tribesman to the Fonçeca household. Carolina Fonçeca is 16 years old and longing to leave the confines of her family's remote Brazilian sugar plantation. With a head full of Balzac and dreams of Parisian life, she is instantly beguiled by the middle-aged Frenchman. What Carolina doesn't know is that François has a wife and son back in France. Desperate for a new life, she makes a decision that will haunt her forever.
9781922711434
1822-1889
Lawyers--Fiction.
Family secrets.
Inheritance and succession.
Lawyers.
Naturalists.
Scientific expeditions.
Paris (France) - Fiction.
Naturalists--Fiction.
Life change events--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Legal stories.
Family secrets--Fiction.
Inheritance and succession--Fiction.
Lawyers--Victoria--Melbourne--Fiction.
Naturalists--France--Fiction.
Scientific expeditions--Brazil--Fiction.
Brazil--History--1822-1889--Fiction.
Brazil--History--Empire, 1822-1889--Fiction.
Brazil.
France.
France--Paris.
Victoria--Melbourne.
Brazil--Fiction.
Paris (France)--Fiction.
Melbourne (Vic.)--Fiction.
AUS historical fiction (Victoria)
Historical fiction.
History.
Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
A823.4
The natural history of love / Caroline Petit. - South Melbourne, VIC : Affirm Press, 2022. - 398 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes reading group questions.
When Melbourne lawyer Nathan Smithson takes on the case of mad, wealthy Edward Fonçeca's inheritance trial against his ruthless brother in 1902, he must unearth long-buried family secrets to have any chance of winning. Brazil, 1852: François, the Count de Castelnau and French Consul to Bahia falls dangerously ill on a naturalist expedition and is delivered by a rainforest tribesman to the Fonçeca household. Carolina Fonçeca is 16 years old and longing to leave the confines of her family's remote Brazilian sugar plantation. With a head full of Balzac and dreams of Parisian life, she is instantly beguiled by the middle-aged Frenchman. What Carolina doesn't know is that François has a wife and son back in France. Desperate for a new life, she makes a decision that will haunt her forever.
9781922711434
1822-1889
Lawyers--Fiction.
Family secrets.
Inheritance and succession.
Lawyers.
Naturalists.
Scientific expeditions.
Paris (France) - Fiction.
Naturalists--Fiction.
Life change events--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Legal stories.
Family secrets--Fiction.
Inheritance and succession--Fiction.
Lawyers--Victoria--Melbourne--Fiction.
Naturalists--France--Fiction.
Scientific expeditions--Brazil--Fiction.
Brazil--History--1822-1889--Fiction.
Brazil--History--Empire, 1822-1889--Fiction.
Brazil.
France.
France--Paris.
Victoria--Melbourne.
Brazil--Fiction.
Paris (France)--Fiction.
Melbourne (Vic.)--Fiction.
AUS historical fiction (Victoria)
Historical fiction.
History.
Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
A823.4
