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Author Jefferies, Dinah, 1948- author.

Title The Tea Planter's Wife : a Novel / Dinah Jefferies.

Publication Info. New York : Crown, [2016]
©2015

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Location Call No. Public Note Status
 Davis Adult Fiction  FIC JEFFERIES    DUE 04-05-24
Edition First edition.
Description 418 pages ; 25 cm
Content type text txt rdacontent
Format volume nc rdacarrier
Note "Originally published in Great Britain by Penguin Books, Ltd., London, England, in 2015."--Title page verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-418).
Summary 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.
Note Text in English.
Subject Married women -- Fiction.
British -- Sri Lanka -- Fiction.
Tea plantations -- Sri Lanka -- Fiction.
Secrecy -- Fiction.
Pregnancy -- Fiction.
Sri Lanka -- History -- 1505-1948 -- Fiction.
Genre Historical fiction.
ISBN 0451495977
9780451495976