The lace balcony / Johanna Nicholls.
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TextPublisher: [Sydney, N.S.W.] : PointBreak Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Edition: EasyRead large editionDescription: iv, 923 pages (large print) ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781741361728Subject(s): Penal colonies -- New South Wales -- Fiction | Man-woman relationships -- Fiction | Australia -- History -- 1788-1851 -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Large type books. DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: Vianna Francis, known in the colony as 'The Sydney Venus', is a notorious young mistress in keeping to a former gentleman convict, who uses her to entice wealthy men to his gaming tables. A woman of mystery, Vianna is a magnet for scandal. Was she the mistress of a Royal duke? A lady's maid who learned the tricks of the world's oldest profession when in service to a Parisian courtesan? Or the widow of a young man executed on the gallows? Men of high rank are determined to possess this passionate, mercenary beauty. The L'Estrange half - brothers were born only months apart. One brother is an idealistic dreamer, the other a volatile adventurer. And the rivals have two things in common - a fatal attraction to get-rich schemes that run afoul of the law - and their obsession with Vianna.
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Regular print edition published: Cammeray, N.S.W. : Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Vianna Francis, known in the colony as 'The Sydney Venus', is a notorious young mistress in keeping to a former gentleman convict, who uses her to entice wealthy men to his gaming tables. A woman of mystery, Vianna is a magnet for scandal. Was she the mistress of a Royal duke? A lady's maid who learned the tricks of the world's oldest profession when in service to a Parisian courtesan? Or the widow of a young man executed on the gallows? Men of high rank are determined to possess this passionate, mercenary beauty. The L'Estrange half - brothers were born only months apart. One brother is an idealistic dreamer, the other a volatile adventurer. And the rivals have two things in common - a fatal attraction to get-rich schemes that run afoul of the law - and their obsession with Vianna.
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