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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of the silk merchant s daughter by dinah jefferies, read by eliza parkes. The separation, dinah jefferies stunning debut novel, is the heartbreaking tale of a family fractured by lies and one mother s love reaching across the distance of years and continents. Shes only nineteen, and her new husband is thirtyseven and owns a tea plantation in ceylon. The story involves mystery, uncertainty, love, happiness, sadness, jealousy and family secrets. 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. Dinah jefferies has written a wonderful novel and i look forward to reading more from her in the future. The tea planter s wife also available in format docx and mobi. Nineteenyearold gwendolyn hooper steps off a steamer in ceylon full of optimism, eager to join her new husband.
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