The Tea Planter´s Wife

by Dinah Jefferies | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 9780241969557 Global Overview for this book
Registered by PrincessRainbow of Innsbruck, Tirol Austria on 1/31/2016
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Journal Entry 1 by PrincessRainbow from Innsbruck, Tirol Austria on Sunday, January 31, 2016
2 newlyweds: practically strangers, deeply in love, and each hiding a secret from the other.
19-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper steps off a steamship on Ceylon eager to begin her new life as a married woman. But the husband who greets her is distant, secretive and brooding. Laurence is forever away working, leaving his young English bride to explore the vast tea plantation alone. Wandering into forbidden places, Gwen finds locked doors, trunks filled with dusty dresses, a tiny overgrown grave - clues to a hidden, unspeakable past.
Gwen soon falls pregnant and her husband is overjoyed, but in the delivery room she is faced with a terrible choice - one she must hide from Laurence at all costs. When the time comes to reveal the truth, how will he ever forgive what she has done?

Journal Entry 2 by PrincessRainbow at Zirl, Tirol Austria on Friday, April 15, 2016

Released 7 yrs ago (4/15/2016 UTC) at Zirl, Tirol Austria

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The book is per Hermes on the way to Tsjara (Netherlands).

Journal Entry 3 by Tsjara at Assendelft, Noord-Holland Netherlands on Saturday, April 23, 2016
Arrived here safe and sound. Thanks very much PrincessRainbow! And for the adorable postcard and bookmark too! :) Really looking forward to read this.

Journal Entry 4 by Tsjara at Zaandam, Noord-Holland Netherlands on Saturday, June 12, 2021
I actually finished this a few months ago but forgot to make a JE. Overal it was an okay read. I really enjoyed the descriptions of the place, quite atmospheric making you feel like you are in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). I didn’t really like the characters though, especially Verity, who was just horrible. Gwen annoyed me sometimes as well and Laurence was so little there throughout the book, he seemed kind of one-dimensional. There was also some kind of mystery surrounding Laurence’s first wife. Kind of gothic now I think about it...

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