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Nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper is starting her new life in Ceylon with her new husband Laurence. He's rich - the owner of a tea plantation - and charming and Gwen is in love. But life in Ceylon isn't quite what she expected. The plantation workers aren't very nice and Laurence seems to be hiding...
The story set in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in the 1920’s takes us on a journey at the heart of a tea plantation. This haunting saga captures all the exciting exoticism of a complex-era society long extinct and gives us a feel of what it was like to live during that time.Of course this is a book about racis...
The Tea Planter's Wife by Dinah Jefferies is really the story of two wives and two marriages. The book starts off dramatically with the exit of one wife. The why and how are the prelude to this book and tie into the eventual conclusion. Unfortunately, emotions along with the plot get lost in the mel...
The Tea Planter's wife is a mysterious sweet, loving story. It starts out with Gwen coming to Ceylon to be with her husband. You go allow with Gwen with her struggles and learning curves of being a mother and wife to her twins and what is going on with Ceylon culture. When one of her children i...
Gwen was not at all prepared for life on her new husband’s tea plantation in the highlands of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Her loving veteran husband, on his home turf, is taciturn, secretive, and far too willing to grant the wishes of his sister and former lover. The Tea Planter’s Wife, by Dinah Jeffrie...
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