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The Tea Planter's Wife
Dinah Jefferies
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Description for The Tea Planter's Wife
Paperback. Presents a haunting, tender portrait of a woman forced to choose between her duty as a wife and her instinct as a mother. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 28. Weight in Grams: 302.
Nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper is newly married to a rich and charming widower, eager to join him on his tea plantation, determined to be the perfect wife and mother.
But life in Ceylon is not what Gwen expected. The plantation workers are resentful, the neighbours treacherous. And there are clues to the past - a dusty trunk of dresses, an overgrown gravestone in the grounds - that her husband refuses to discuss.
Just as Gwen finds her feet, disaster strikes. She faces a terrible choice, hiding the truth from almost everyone, but a secret this big can't stay buried ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241969557
SKU
V9780241969557
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Dinah Jefferies
Dinah Jefferies was born in Malaysia and moved to England at the age of nine. Her idyllic childhood always held a special place in her imagination, and when she began writing novels in her 60s, she was able to return there - first in her fiction and then on annual research trips for each new novel. Dinah Jefferies is the ... Read more
Reviews for The Tea Planter's Wife
My ideal read; mystery, love, heart-break and joy - I couldn't put it down
Santa Montefiore Beautifully written and heart rending, this has a magical setting with a real sense of period.
Katie Fforde A gloriously atmospheric and tension-filled novel that centres on the separation of a mother and her child. Immensely enjoyable, poignant and compelling
Isabel ... Read more
Santa Montefiore Beautifully written and heart rending, this has a magical setting with a real sense of period.
Katie Fforde A gloriously atmospheric and tension-filled novel that centres on the separation of a mother and her child. Immensely enjoyable, poignant and compelling
Isabel ... Read more