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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Jefferies, Dinah, 1948-     Subjects     Married women -- Fiction.     British -- Sri Lanka -- Fiction.     Tea plantations -- Fiction.     Secrecy -- Fiction.     Pregnancy -- Fiction.     Sri Lanka -- History -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Jefferies, Dinah, 1948-       by title:      The tea planter's wi...       by call number:      FICTION JEF     Search the Web     Jefferies, Dinah, 1948-     Married women -- Fiction.     British -- Sri Lanka -- Fiction.     Tea plantations -- Fiction.     Secrecy -- Fiction.     Pregnancy -- Fiction.     Sri Lanka -- History -- Fiction.       MARC Display

The tea planter's wife : a novel / Dinah Jefferies. by Jefferies, Dinah, 1948- Broadway Books, c2017. Call #: FICTION JEF Subjects Married women -- Fiction.   British -- Sri Lanka -- Fiction.   Tea plantations -- Fiction.   Secrecy -- Fiction.   Pregnancy -- Fiction.   Sri Lanka -- History -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780451495983 (trade pbk.) Edition:  1st paperback ed. Description:  437 p. ; 21 cm. Notes:  "Extra Libris." -- Cover. Includes essays and reader's guides (p. [423]-437). Summary:  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 neighbors are treacherous. And there are clues to the past - a dusty trunk of dresses, an overgrown gravestone in the grounds - that her husband refuses to discuss. Just as Gwen finds her feet, disaster strikes. She faces a terrible choice, hiding the truth from almost everyone, but a secret this big can't stay buried forever ... Genre:  Historical fiction. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION JEF Adult Trade Paperback Books Checked out Jul 06, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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