The tea planter's wife - Dinah Jefferies

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Title
The tea planter's wife
Author
Dinah Jefferies
format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books
Language
English
UK Publication Date
03/09/2015

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'My ideal read - I couldn't put it down' Santa Montefiore

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. But the man who greets her at the tea plantation is not the same one she fell in love with in London.

Distant and 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 and 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 and untold secrets vividly and entrancingly set in colonial era Ceylon.

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Dinah Jefferies was born in Malaysia and moved to England at the age of nine. She worked in education, lived in a commune and exhibited work as an artist before deciding to follow her dream of becoming a writer after losing her retirement fund in the financial crash; to motivate herself, Dinah stuck Post-its around her house saying 'you will write a bestseller!' Dinah Jefferies is the author of three novels, The Separation, The Tea Planter's Wife - a Number One Sunday Times bestseller - and The Silk Merchant's Daughter. She lives in Gloucestershire.

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 Wolff

Vibrant and compelling - Dinah Jefferies perfectly captures the flavour of colonial Ceylon
Rosanna Ley

I was spellbound from beginning to end
Deborah Rodriguez

A wonderful book, deeply touching and an unforgettable read that swept me away. I loved it.
Kate Furnivall

Dark secrets lie at every turn, hidden beneath layers of 1920s racism and the fearfulness of a crumbling colonial power, making for a thoroughly gripping tale. But what I loved most of all. . . is the moving way in which Dinah writes about the loss of children and the redemptive power of love.
Liz Trenow

A terrific emotional and atmospheric read
Elizabeth Buchan

Deeply atmospheric and utterly engrossing
Lucy Cruickshanks

Rich and incredibly evocative, historical fiction at its best...it's just spellbinding
Sunday Express

A full-blown escape into the past


Independent

A gripping tale of love, jealousy, greed and tragedy
Woman and Home

Type
BOOK
Edition
Paperback original
Keyword Index
British - Sri Lanka - Fiction.|Tea plantations - Sri Lanka - Fiction.|Sri Lanka - History - 1505-1948 - Fiction.
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Number of Pages
448
ISBN
0241969557

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