The natural history of love / Caroline Petit.
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TextPublisher: South Melbourne, VIC : Affirm Press, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 398 pages ; illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781922711434Subject(s): Lawyers -- Fiction | Naturalists -- Fiction | Life change events -- Fiction | Man-woman relationships -- Fiction | Family secrets -- Fiction | Inheritance and succession -- Fiction | Lawyers -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- Fiction | Naturalists -- France -- Fiction | Scientific expeditions -- Brazil -- Fiction | Brazil -- Fiction | Brazil -- History -- 1822-1889 -- Fiction | Paris (France) -- Fiction | Melbourne (Vic.) -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Biographical fiction.DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: 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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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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