TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jefferies,Dinah
TI  - The tea planter's wife: a novel 
SN  - 9780451495976 (hbk.)
U1  - 080 
KW  - Married women
KW  - Fiction
KW  - British
KW  - Sri Lanka
KW  - Tea plantations
KW  - Secrecy
KW  - Pregnancy
KW  - fast
KW  - Wives
KW  - sears
KW  - Plantations
KW  - History
KW  - 1505-1948
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - gsafd
N2  - 1920s Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Gwendolyn, a young Englishwoman, marries Laurence, an older widower and tea plantation owner. At first Gwen finds it hard to adjust to the customs and racial issues, but on discovering she is pregnant Gwen is determined to be a good mother and a support to her husband. When Laurence's sister Verity visits, questions are raised about Laurence's first marriage and secrets about his past
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