> Skip to content
Play sample
  • Published: 26 August 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241011652
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $39.99

The Tea Planter's Wife

The mesmerising escapist historical romance that became a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller




The story of a young woman's journey through love, motherhood, disaster, betrayal and loss in 1920s Ceylon

Nineteen-year-old 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.

But life in Ceylon is not what Gwen expected. The plantation workers are resentful, the neighbours treacherous. And there are clues to the past - a dusty trunk of dresses, an overgrown gravestone in the grounds - that her husband refuses to discuss.

Just as Gwen finds her feet, disaster strikes. She faces a terrible choice, hiding the truth from almost everyone, but a secret this big can't stay buried forever. . .

  • Published: 26 August 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241011652
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $39.99

About the author

Dinah Jefferies

Dinah Jefferies was born in Malaya in 1948 and moved to England at the age of nine. She has worked in education, once lived in a rock n roll commune and, more recently, been an exhibiting artist. She spends her days writing, with time off to make tiaras and dinosaurs with her grandchildren. She has previously published The Separation with Viking, and The Tea Planter's Wife is her second novel.

Also by Dinah Jefferies

See all