Booktrail: The Tea Planter's Wife by Dinah Jefferies

Be transported to a tea plantation in Ceylon (modern day Sri Lanka) with Dinah Jefferies’ stunningly evocative novel to transport you there via the sights, sounds and fragrant aromas of the time and place. It’s 1925, Gwen is 19 years old and has just stepped off a steamship in Ceylon ready to begin her new life as a married woman. Her husband works away a lot and so leaves her to explore her new home, a tea plantation, on her own. However all is not well in paradise. For behind the shiny facade of the plantation house, there is a world of resentment and discomfort among the workers. Gwen wanders into areas she really should not and what she finds there could risk everything she holds dear. When she falls pregnant, the world she now calls home could be the one place she needs to escape.

The Tea Planter's Wife by Dinah Jeffries is out now (Penguin £7.99) and you can find more booktrails here.