The Bequest

1864. After three years of service in the Russian navy and a gruelling expedition to Greenland, Captain Frederik Ziege of the Royal Danish Navy is enjoying a season on the Riviera with his mother, sister and two marriageable nieces. There he meets Emmeline Leslie, the young Australian widow of a bush pioneer. The differences between their complex histories enrich the ensuing romance, but frustrate their search for a home. The Bequest is a novel about identity and belonging, about the place of history and memory in uprooted lives and, at its heart it is the story of a passionate love affair.>

Product details

• Authors: John De Falbe
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2012
• EAN: 9780099578093
• ISBN: 978-0-09-957809-3
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Europe, FICTION / Family Life / General, Historical fiction, Australia, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, c 1800 to c 1900, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, 1837–1901 (Victorian period), Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945)