The tea planter's wife : a novel / Dinah Jefferies.
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- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0451495977
- 9780451495976
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Main Library | Fiction | Jefferie Dinah | Available | 33111008463396 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
#1 International bestselling novel set in 1920s Ceylon, about a young Englishwoman who 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
Text in English.
"Originally published in Great Britain by Penguin Books, Ltd., London, England, in 2015."--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [415]-418).
1920s Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Gwendolyn, a young Englishwoman, marries Laurence, an older widower and tea plantation owner. At first Gwen finds it hard to adjust to the customs and racial issues, but on discovering she is pregnant Gwen is determined to be a good mother and a support to her husband. When Laurence's sister Verity visits, questions are raised about Laurence's first marriage and secrets about his past.