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#TFBookClub reads “The Sapphire Widow” set in CEYLON (SRI LANKA)
16th April 2018
#TFBookClub May/June 2018
Our first seven outings for the #TFBookClub have seen us travel the world, seeing different locations through the eyes of authors:
- We have so far been #OnLiteraryLocation in SARDINIA with Rosanna Ley’s The Little Theatre By The Sea
- We have explored the sense of history in PRAGUE, reading Prague Nights by Benjamin Black
- We have been on a real adventure to CENTRAL AMERICA with Maile Meloy’s Do Not Become Alarmed
- We have been immersed in an intense relationship between two female writers in Exquisite by Sarah Stovell, set in NORTHUMBERLAND and the LAKE DISTRICT,
- We have met Harriet Steel’s Inspector de Silva in 1930s CEYLON (now SRI LANKA), experiencing Trouble in Nuala.
- We have time-travelled to exotic GRANADA in historic ANDALUCIA SPAIN with Jane Johnson’s Court of Lions
- And most recently we have dived into the beautiful CYCLADES in GREECE with Hannah Fielding’s Aphrodite’s Tears
Our latest #TFBookClub outing is back to intriguing CEYLON (now SRI LANKA) in the 1930s, with The Sapphire Widow by Dinah Jefferies.
Ceylon, 1935. Louisa Reeve, the daughter of a successful British gem trader, and her husband Elliot, a charming, thrill-seeking businessman, seem like the couple who have it all. Except what they long for more than anything: a child.
While Louisa struggles with miscarriages, Elliot is increasingly absent, spending much of his time at a nearby cinnamon plantation, overlooking the Indian ocean. After his sudden death, Louisa is left alone to solve the mystery he left behind. Revisiting the plantation at Cinnamon Hills, she finds herself unexpectedly drawn towards the owner Leo, a rugged outdoors man with a chequered past. The plantation casts a spell, but all is not as it seems.
And when Elliot’s shocking betrayal is revealed, Louisa has only Leo to turn to…
Join us in reading The Sapphire Widow to find out what happens to Louisa.
Apply for a copy to read along:
If you would like to apply for a copy to read along with us during May and early June 2018, just leave a COMMENT below and tell us whether you prefer paper (UK only) or digital (via Netgalley) or either – by midnight, 30th April 2018. The first names out of the hat on TUESDAY 1st May 2018 will be sent copies of the book. After that we can all start turning the pages and share our thoughts over the subsequent weeks.
We will be in touch at the beginning of May if you are one of our lucky readers! Don’t forget, applications close midnight, 30th April 2018!
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I really enjoyed reading the Tea Planter’s Wife, and this one sounds just as good. I’d love the paper version please.
I have thoroughly enjoyed the earlier novels by Dinah Jeffries and am really looking forward to reading and reviewing The Sapphire Widow. First choice would be a paperback copy so it can be Bookcrossed.
I have read a couple of books from this author and they are always entertaining and rich tales. Would love a print copy 🙂
This is a new author for me, I’d love a digital copy please.
Hi. I really enjoyed the last #TFBookClub Would it be possible to join this one too? I’ve seen it advertised for another book club and have fancied it ever since. Ive joined another book club thru a library (where I work) since joining you guys last month.
I love to travel the world in my literary adventures. A paper copy would be lovely please x
Would love to read this one.
I would love to read this along with you. I prefer a paperback.
A paper copy would be fabulous.
Yes please….would love to be transported back to 1930s Ceylon by Dinah again. I loved The Tea Planter’s Wife. I don’t mind paper or digital – thank you.
Digital copy please thank you
Yes please. I have just finished a book about Out-back Australia – took me back to our recent trip there. Would like to visit somewhere else again.
Would love to join in virtually with my paper copy as am isolated at home recovering from cancer treatments which hit the immune system. Sri Lanka is also on my travel wish list!
Even the cover is beautiful. I’d love to read it.
I would love to join in and read with you. Ebook or paper Is fine with me. Read both types!
Thank you .
Ooh – I’d love a paperback copy – I nod off staring at the screen – and how nice to join your book club, please.
Would love to join and win a paper copy, please. Thank you!
Love a paper back copy
I loved The Tea Planter’s Wife, it really captured the essence of the colonial lifestyle in Ceylon, so I would love to follow up with this book. I’d prefer the print version please
I would love a digital copy (since I’m in the US)…sounds fascinating!
I wished I’d have been born in the 30s, sounds a fantastic read and would to read a paper copy
Would love to join in with the book club read….paper copy if I’m chosen…thank you.
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Would love paper copy please, very kind of you
Paper please, such a beautiful setting for a book!
Looks intriguing – paperback please
Just put a plea in for a paper copy please but it disappeared into the ether!
Would love to read a paper copy of this please,
I would love a digital copy. Thank you.
Back to Ceylon! How can I resist? I’d love a paperback copy please. Harriet
Count me in please.
I enjoyed the Tea Planter’s Wife, which set me up for my holiday in Sri Lanka earlier this year. The ethos of Tripfiction in action as I went there knowing a little of the history and culture.
Happy with book or digital.
This sounds fantastic. Digital copy please.
Would love to read this -paperback please
Book Please. I am very much enjoying the book Club and would love to read another book by Dinah Jeffries, thank you.
I really enjoyed “The Tea Planter’s Wife” so would love to read ” The Sapphire Widow”. Reading about Ceylon would be great as I doubt if I will ever get to visit!
Paperback please
Hi, I’d prefer a paper copy please. Sounds like an interesting read!
Ps. I would prefer a paperback copy, please, unless electronic can be read on my kindle (old model)?
I LOVE Dinah Jefferies’ books & I loved Sri Lanka when I visited in the early 80s so a winning combination for me! 🙂
Would love a paperback x
Hi I would love a paperback to read along. Thank you
Prefer paperback
I’d love a PB copy please x
Paper please
Hello paper copy please. Loving reading India set books after a lovely trip there recently