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Mr Carver's whale / Lyn Hughes.

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Record Number 877509
ISBN 9781460762950 (paperback)
Author Hughes, Lyn author.
Title Mr Carver's whale / Lyn Hughes.
Publisher/Date Sydney, N.S.W. : Fourth Estate, 2022.
©2022
Pagination etc. 326 pages ; 21 cm.
Summary Note 1850: A sea-chest full of books arrives for Antonio Mateus Carvalho Cabral, the younger son of a family of whalers on the small volcanic island of Pico... The Carvalho brothers - handsome Marcelinho and clever Antonio - are destined to spend their lives hunting whales. But the arrival of an unexpected gift changes both their lives forever. As the younger Carvalho discovers the fascinating world of the whale, a chasm opens between the two brothers, made all the more perilous by their shared passion for the alluring and wilful Margarida Machado. From the Azores to Lisbon, from Newfoundland to Australia, our hero travels in search of love, fortune and his very soul. It is in Eden, a small whaling port on the south coast of New South Wales, that he finally finds salvation in the shape of Alice Binney, fellow lost soul and impostor, in flight from her dark past. An enduring bond forms between the two, culminating in a final, dazzling act of atonement. Gloriously dark, delightful, witty and moving, Mr Carver's Whale is a novel of our many crimes against nature and the human heart, and the price we have to pay for our sins. But can love ever really be a crime?
Subject Brothers -- Fiction
Whalers (Persons) -- Fiction
Chests -- Fiction
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
Ocean travel -- Fiction
Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Fiction
Australian fiction
Shelf Location F HUGH
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