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Bone china / Roma Tearne.

by Tearne, Roma.

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HarperCollins, 2009, c2008.

Civil war -- Sri Lanka -- Fiction.

Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.

Sri Lankans -- England -- Fiction.

Sri Lankans -- England -- Social conditions -- Fiction.

London (England) -- Fiction.

9780007257508 (2009 HarperPerennial pbk.)

9781554684168 (trade pbk.)

9780007240739 (Harper Press : 2008)

Trade paperback ed.

400 p. ; 22 cm.

"Originally published in Great Britain by Harper Press in 2008"--T.p. verso.

"When Grace de Silva's once-prominent family loses its vast tea estate, Grace has little idea how everyone's life in her lush, Eden-like homeland of Sri Lanka is about to change. Her children dream of escape - Jacob, the eldest, wants desperately to go to England; Thornton longs to become a poet; Alicia is brewing, and Christopher, the youngest of the de Silva children, is caught up in the violence and tragedy that follows. Against a backdrop of escalating ethnic conflict, Grace watches helplessly as the life she knew begins to crumble. Slowly, this once-inseparable family is torn apart as they make the decision to immigrate to England. In London, the de Silva's are all, in their different ways, desperately homesick. Caught in a cultural clash between the traditional life they knew in the East and the jarring modernity of the West, life is not what any of them dreamed of. Only ten-year-old Meeka moves confidently into a world that is full of possibilities. But even her life is not as easy as it often seems. It takes heartbreak and a terrible mistake before she is finally able to see the extraordinary effects of history on her family's migration."--p. [2] of cover.

Domestic fiction.

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