Ebook {Epub PDF} The Tea Planters Wife by Dinah Jefferies

The Tea Planter’s Wife by Dinah Jeffries is a Penguin publication. I was provided a copy of this book by the publisher and the LIbraryThing early reviewer program. The Tea Planter’s Wife is an exemplary novel, written with a lush literary prose, which pulls me deep into the landscape and historical setting of colonial Ceylan/5.  · Booktrail: The Tea Planter's Wife by Dinah Jefferies. Published Octo by The Booktrail. Be transported to a tea plantation in Ceylon Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. The Tea Planter’s Wife is a seductive love story but the novel also explores the tragic consequences of racism. The idea for this novel came as my mother-in-law reminisced about a childhood spent in India and Burma in the s and early s, and told stories passed down by her family that included tea planters in both Ceylon and India. Then, while listening to old audio recordings from the British .

From the Richard Judy review of The Tea Planter's Wife: "Gwen is a brand-new bride, back in the s, stepping off a steamer in Ceylon to join her tea-planter husband, Laurence. He is a widower (who) she met and married in England after a whirlwind romance . But there is a serpent in paradise. The man she married has changed. Reviewer: Annie. I was given a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Summary: 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 and her instinct as a mother Nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper steps off a steamer in Ceylon full of optimism, eager to join her new husband. Press Releases THE TEA PLANTER'S WIFE by Dinah Jefferies The heartrending historical novel—after hitting #1 on the UK bestseller list—now comes to the U.S.!

Booktrail: The Tea Planter's Wife by Dinah Jefferies. Published Octo by The Booktrail. Be transported to a tea plantation in Ceylon (modern day Sri Lanka) with Dinah Jefferies. A young English wife becomes the mistress of a tea plantation in Ceylon and is quickly confronted with upheavals—racial, social, and domestic—in Jefferies' U.S. bltadwin.ru, daughter of a landed Gloucestershire family, marries widower Laurence Hooper, descended from Ceylon's original English settlers. #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • s Ceylon: A young Englishwoman marries a charming tea plantation owner and widower, only to discover he's keeping terrible secrets about his past, including what happened to his first wife, that lead to devastating consequences.