Belle moral: a natural history
Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Canadian non-fiction, Literature, Drama
Human-narrated audio
Summary
Scotland, 1899. Following her father's death, amateur scientist Pearl MacIsaac struggles to discover the secret of her family's past, which her father had kept hidden with the help of the family doctor. A story of family secrets that have come… to life and of the birth and evolution of ideas, including Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, contemporary medical beliefs and the concept of eugenics. Some descriptions of sex. 2008.