The Tea Planter`s Wife

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Dinah Jefferies` unforgettable new novel, The Tea Planter`s Wife is a haunting, tender portrait of a woman forced to choose between her duty as a wife & her instinct as a mother... Nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper steps off a steamer in Ceylon full of optimism, eager to join her new husb&. But the man who greets her at the tea plantation is not the same one she fell in love with in London. Distant & brooding, Laurence spends long days wrapped up in his work, leaving his young bride to explore the plantation alone. It`s a place filled with clues to the past
- locked doors, a yellowed wedding dress in a dusty trunk, an overgrown grave hidden in the grounds, far too small for an adult... Gwen soon falls pregnant & her husband is overjoyed, but she has little time to celebrate. In the delivery room the new mother is faced with a terrible choice, one she knows no one in her upper class set will understand
- least of all Laurence. Forced to bury a secret at the heart of her marriage, Gwen is more isolated than ever. When the time comes, how will her husband ever understand what she has done? The Tea Planter`s Wife is a story of guilt, betrayal & untold secrets vividly & entrancingly set in colonial era Ceylon. ” Captivating, powerful & passionate.” (Deborah Rodriguez on The Separation). ”A richly detailed story...as intimate as a kiss & as sharp as the blade of a knife.” (David Gilham on The Separation). ”I simply didn`t want to put it down. Vivid & atmospheric
- you can smell the tropics, feel the drenching heat...” (Isabel Wolff on The Separation).