Mar 10, 2020 the tea planters wife is a very intriguing story, of secrets that are harboured within a relationship and are destined to be revealed, but at what cost. In other words, the tea planters wife is so much more than a conventional love story, with all its twists and turns and guilt and betrayal. Of course, the story builds to an ironic twist and enthralling consequence to all the deception. A young english wife becomes the mistress of a tea plantation in ceylon and. Dinah jefferies filled the entire book with quality, descriptive writing to create a stunning historical drama. She seems at ease with her decision to leave england behind and make a new life with her husband. Uk praise for the tea planters wife a gripping, intelligent, and tropically infused read. Their books were all about the british colonial period and took place in exotic locales, extoling the mannerisms and lifestyle of an era long gone. This story is based around a british family living on their tea plantation in the 1920s british colony of ceylon sri lanka. Jul 26, 2016 it took me four days to finish reading the tea planters wife by dinah jefferies.
A young englishwoman marries a charming tea plantation owner and widower, only to discover hes keeping terrible secrets about his past, including what happened. Dinah jefferies brilliantly captures the essence of love in her novel, the tea planters wife. Nor had they said how close those two feelings were. Shes only nineteen, and her new husband is thirtyseven and owns a tea plantation in ceylon. May 07, 2019 the tea planters wife is a mustread, regardless of any specific fictional genre you may prefer. In the tea planters wife dinah jefferies does a magnificent job of recapturing that era with grace and warmth, placing us firmly in a lush, tropical atmosphere filled with exotic birdcall, and air scented with cinnamon, sandalwood, and jasmine and underlying it all, a subtle but striking scent of death and decay. In this lush, sexy, atmospheric pageturner, a young englishwoman, 19yearold gwendolyn, marries a rich and seductively mysterious widower, laurence hooper, after a whirlwind romance in. Book club questions for the tea planters wife by dinah. A refined blend of british stoicism and the suffocating impact of secrets, alongside the evocative landscapes of foreign lands.
In this lush, sexy, atmospheric pageturner, a young englishwoman, 19yearold gwendolyn, marries a rich and seductively mysterious widower, laurence hooper, after a whirlwind romance in london. With elizabeth taylor, dana andrews, peter finch, abraham sofaer. Aug 10, 2015 book club questions for the tea planter s wife by dinah jefferies part of the richard and judy autumn 2015 bookclub. Do you have any thoughts, questions or discussions about the tea planter s wife by dinah jefferies. The story involves mystery, uncertainty, love, happiness, sadness, jealousy and family secrets.
And she hoped that one day, maybe, if she was very lucky, she might find a way to forgive herself. The tea planters wife by dinah jefferies the crown. The tea planters wife audiobook by dinah jefferies. Youthful gwen, a born english rose, marries the charmingly captivating laurence hooper. Its not as short as i thought, but for me, finishing a book in less than a week is a good achievement. The tea planters wife is a very intriguing story, of secrets that are harboured but destined to come out. The sights, sounds and aromas all come alive in this wellwritten emotional and tragic story. Love, suspense, guilt, and hidden secrets with an underlying theme of race relations seamlessly blend together in a timeless story of an innocent young englishwoman struggling to find her place in colonial ceylon against unexpected circumstances and facing cruel choices. The intrigue and suspense, add a gothic flair to jeffries fastmoving plot and the evocative. The tea planter s wife is a story of a young woman, gwen who marries a gentleman where they settle to live in ceylon and as you can guess from the title of the story, becomes the wife of a tea planter.
Do you have any thoughts, questions or discussions about the tea planters wife by dinah jefferies. The tea planters wife is a story of guilt, betrayal and untold secrets vividly and entrancingly set in colonial era ceylon. The tea planters wife by dinah jeffries is a 2015 penguin publication. Loves commitments soon sees gwen aboard a ship bound for ceylon sri. Advance praise for the tea planters wife spellbinding. Ceylon, the teardrop off the coast of india, is modernday sri lanka. The tea planters wife is a very intriguing story, of secrets that are harboured within a relationship and are destined to be revealed, but at what cost.
Its harder than it looksespecially when we told them they couldnt read the synopsis on the back of the book. Book club questions for the tea planters wife by dinah jefferies part of the richard and judy autumn 2015 bookclub. Gwendolyns youth and excitable manner is quickly diminished when she is greeted with an unfamiliar culture. Oct 03, 2015 i read a lucinda riley a while back, with a given away child and it caused me great pain and i felt that part of the plot was dealt with with such intense and dwelt on agony poor child without its mother, and the suffering of the mother no matter how successful and kindly the child grew up to be, as if that was some sort of sop, at the. Gwen, daughter of a landed gloucestershire family, marries widower laurence hooper, descended from ceylons original english settlers. It is set against the backdrop of the malayan emergency and focuses on a rubber planter and his neighbours who are fending off a campaign of sustained attacks by communist insurgents while also struggling to save their marriage. The background to laurence and what happened to his first wife is held in secret but he is not alone because gwen recently had an encounter with another. The first few chapters were fascinating and began to weave an intricate and mysterious story. This is more than a novel of the deadly resentment of a servant because a new wife is taking the place of her former mistress.
Combine this with the vivid, evocative manner in which jefferies describes the beauty of ceylon, now sri lanka, and the captivating cast of characters she has created, and you have a superbly written novel that readers of historical fiction as well as womens fiction will. In this lush, sexy, atmospheric pageturner, a young englishwoman, 19yearold gwendolyn, marries a rich and seductively mysterious widower, laurence hooper, after a whirlwind. The tea planters wife by dinah jefferies goodreads. The tea planters wife by dinah jeffries a sentence to summarise. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Buy the tea planters wife by jefferies, dinah isbn. Newlywed gwen travels to ceylon to join her husband laurence on his tea plantation. Her 2015 novel, the tea planter s wife, was a choice for the richard and judy book club. The plot sounds like a ripoff of wuthering heights. The tea planters wife by dinah jefferies jennifer rose. A new bride arrives at an elaborate and somewhat mysterious estate with lots of vegetation related post. A young englishwoman marries a charming tea plantation owner and widower, only to discover hes keeping terrible secrets about his past, including what happened to his first wife, that lead to devastating consequences. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the tea planters wife.
Sep 02, 2015 in other words, the tea planters wife is so much more than a conventional love story, with all its twists and turns and guilt and betrayal. The young bride of a rich planter finds herself the only white woman at elephant walk tea plantation, british ceylon. It is also a story of racial prejudices, nationalism and alliances. The tea planters wife is so much more than a conventional love story. Set in rich and exotic 1920s ceylon, the tea planter s wife is an utterly engrossing, compulsive pageturner that climaxes with more than one heartbreaking twist. A young english wife becomes the mistress of a tea plantation in ceylon and is quickly confronted with upheavalsracial, social, and domesticin jefferies u. The tea planters wife is a story of a young woman, gwen who marries a gentleman where they settle to live in ceylon and as you can guess from the title of the story, becomes the wife of a tea planter. I believe i first came to it because i had seen it on a recommended books list, and although it is slightly more modern than my usual choice, i really enjoyed this novel for its references to early 20 th century fashion, to events of the time, but most of all, for its heart rending story. Oct 20, 2016 dinah jefferies brilliantly captures the essence of love in her novel, the tea planters wife. Watch as these ordinary people try to tell us the plot of this book based solely on the cover. Dinah jefferies uses the secrets held by a husband and wife to expose the prejudice and unfairness of the british colonial era.
Papercutsread it forwards video teamspent a beautiful fall day asking passersby at the brooklyn book festival if they could identify the plot of dinah jefferies novel the tea planters wife just by looking at the cover image. The tea planters wife, by dinah jefferies is a beautiful book. The tea planters wife by dinah jefferies is a 2015 penguin publication. Sep 03, 2015 the tea planter s wife is a very intriguing story, of secrets that are harboured but destined to come out. Praise for love, suspense, guilt, and hidden secrets with an underlying theme of race relations seamlessly blend together in a timeless story of an innocent young englishwoman struggling to find her place in colonial ceylon against unexpected circumstances and facing cruel choices. Set in rich and exotic 1920s ceylon, the tea planters wife is an utterly engrossing, compulsive pageturner that climaxes with more than one heartbreaking twist. He is a widower who she met and married in england after a whirlwind romance. Nineteenyearold 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. Aug 28, 2015 the tea planters wife is a story of guilt, betrayal and untold secrets vividly and entrancingly set in colonial era ceylon. The tea planters wife by dinah jefferies published on november 12, 2017 november, 2017 by rhi set in ceylon, now known as sri lanka, the tea planters wife is an intriguing story of a young newlywed woman who leaves the comforts of her home in england to live with her new husband, the owner of a tea plantation. The planters wife is a 1952 british drama film directed by ken annakin, and starring claudette colbert, jack hawkins and anthony steel. The tea planters wife, by dinah jeffries huge spoilers. Richard and judy a richard and judy book club pick rich and incredibly evocative, the tea planters wife is historical fiction at its very best. For more on the tea planters wife, published by broadway books in 2015, continue life goes on, she thought.
During the reading of this book, i purchased another of jeffries stories which i cannot wait to get started on. The tea planters wife is an exemplary novel, written with a lush literary prose, which pulls me deep into the landscape and historical setting of colonial ceylan. The tea planter s wife is a very intriguing story, of secrets that are harboured but destined to come out. Sep 12, 2016 the tea planters wife echoes some of elements of the classic novel, rebecca, but with a more fragile character in gwen and with a wider focus. Aug 24, 2016 the tea planters wife by dinah jefferies is a 2015 penguin publication.
Just as when i read anna karenina, i was rooting for her to jump in front of the train. Young, naive, and completely besotted by her husband, laurence, gwendolyn hooper arrives in ceylon to begin her new life as a tea planters wife. Apr 16, 2018 the tea planter s wife is a very intriguing story, of secrets that are harboured but destined to come out. The tea planter s wife is a story of guilt, betrayal and untold secrets vividly and entrancingly set in colonial era ceylon. Gwendolyn hooper is newly married to a tea plantation owner and is keen to join him in ceylon. Her 2015 novel, the tea planters wife, was a choice for the richard and judy book club. In the tea planters wife, i was well and truly transported back to 1920s ceylon. By abbe wright 3 years ago papercutsread it forwards video teamspent a beautiful fall day asking passersby at the brooklyn book festival if they could identify the plot of dinah jefferies novel the tea planters wife just by looking. It is a recognition that girls like gwen had guts, and commitment, and a willingness to take risks. The tea planters wife started off with great promise. Gwen is 19 years old and marries laurence, a widower and tea plantation owner. Dinah jefferies unforgettable new novel, the tea planters wife is a haunting, tender portrait of a woman forced to choose. The tea planters wife by dinah jefferies my rating.
We are on a tea plantation in 1920s ceylon and 19 year old gwendolyn hooper is the new bride of the owner, a wealthy and charming widower. However, the writing became repetitive and i found myself scanning the paragraphs to find the thread of the story throughout the. When 19 yearold, gwen hooper leaves the comfort of her family and home in england, to take a boat to ceylon to move in with the husband she recently married, she truly believes she met the man of her dreams. She is illprepared for her new life, with little knowledge of this. There are secrets surrounding the death of his first wife, but gwen decides to ignore those and travels to her new and exotic home.
Set in rich and exotic 1920s ceylon, the tea planters wife is an utterly engrossing, compulsive pageturner that climaxes with more than one heartbreaking. The tea planters wife by dinah jefferies waterstones. When i first read the plot synopsis of the tea planters wife, i thought that the book would be about a failed marriage. Its beautifully written and plotted, and although i did guess the truth behind the. A young englishwoman marries a charming tea plantation owner and. Gwen is a brandnew bride, back in the 1920s, stepping off a steamer in ceylon to join her teaplanter husband, laurence. The tea planters wife echoes some of elements of the classic novel, rebecca, but with a more fragile character in gwen and with a wider focus. Sep 02, 2017 for more on the tea planters wife, published by broadway books in 2015, continue life goes on, she thought. The planter s wife is a 1952 british drama film directed by ken annakin, and starring claudette colbert, jack hawkins and anthony steel. The tea planters wife by dinah jefferies 9780241969557. It took me four days to finish reading the tea planters wife by dinah jefferies. Of course, the story builds to an ironic twist and enthralling consequence to.
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