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The Tea Planter's Wife

Dinah Jefferies

From Shelf: 2015 Favourite Reads

Presents 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 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 forever . . .

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
448
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN:
9780241969557
Published Date:
3/9/2015
Dimensions:
198mm x 130mm x 26mm
Weight:
312g
Category:
Historical fiction

RRP: £9.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9780241969557


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