The natural history of love / Caroline Petit.
Publication details: South Melbourne, VIC : Affirm Press, 2022.Description: 398 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 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)
- A823.4 23/eng/20220427
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Historical | PET | Available | 064292 |
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.
