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(0)Tea Cooper
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A woman's bungled act of kindness sparks a chain of events that reverberates through the generations uncovering secrets, lies, and the biggest scientific controversy of the nineteenth century: the classification of the platypus.
A woman's bungled act of kindness sparks a chain of events that reverberates through the generations uncovering secrets, lies, and the biggest scientific controversy of the nineteenth century: the classification of the platypus.
1808...
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A botanical illustration of a butterfly. A missing baby. And a twisted mystery fifty years in the making.
1868, Morpeth. Theodora Breckenridge, still in mourning after the loss of her parents and brother at sea, is more interested in working quietly on her art at the family's country estate than she is finding a husband in Sydney society, even if her elder sister Florence has other ideas. Theodora seeks to emulate prestigious nature illustrators,...
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From a bestselling Australian author, this compellingly realized novel brings to life the story of an enigmatic figure, wife to feted colonial architect Francis Greenway, and asks, whose hand really shaped Sydney? Who is the talented Mrs. Greenway?
1814 Sydney When Mary Greenway, freshly arrived from the old country, steps into the maelstrom of Sydney Town with three children at her skirts, she has high hopes of a new beginning, despite having little...
