The Tea Planter's Wife Wines beautifully drawn exploration into complicated

beautifully drawn exploration into complicated family and personal relationships and the frailty and fortitude of a girl simply trying to succeed

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The Tea Planter's Wife Wines beautifully drawn exploration into complicatedThe story of a young woman's journey through love, motherhood and loss in 1920s Ceylon Nineteen year old Gwendolyn Hooper is newly married to a rich and charming widower, eager to join him on his tea plantation, determined to be the perfect wife and mother. But life in Ceylon is not what Gwen expected. The plantation workers are resentful, the neighbours treacherous. And there are clues to the past a dusty trunk of dresses, an overgrown gravestone in