TY  - BOOK
AU  - Petit,Caroline
AU  - Petit,Caroline
TI  - The natural history of love
SN  - 9781922711434
U1  - A823.4 23/eng/20220427
PY  - 2022///
CY  - South Melbourne, VIC
PB  - Affirm Press
KW  - Lawyers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Family secrets
KW  - fast
KW  - Inheritance and succession
KW  - Naturalists
KW  - Scientific expeditions
KW  - Paris (France) - Fiction
KW  - sears
KW  - Life change events
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Legal stories
KW  - Victoria
KW  - Melbourne
KW  - France
KW  - Brazil
KW  - History
KW  - 1822-1889
KW  - Empire, 1822-1889
KW  - Paris
KW  - Paris (France)
KW  - Melbourne (Vic.)
KW  - AUS historical fiction (Victoria)
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Biographical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes reading group questions
N2  - 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
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