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The tea planters wife by dinah jefferies book resume. The tea plantation is a delightful backdrop for this compelling story. The fetid, steamy atmosphere of the tropics rises from these pages like a humid mist. Play along as judge a book contestants at the brooklyn book festival try to figure out what dinah jefferiess the tea planters wife is about only by looking at its cover. The tea planters wife had the beginnings of a great novel, but there are four things that did not work for me. The main character, gwen, moves there from england after marrying an older man, laurence hooper, who runs his familys tea plantation. Aug 24, 2016 the tea planters wife by dinah jefferies is a 2015 penguin publication.
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