Ceylon 1920s

  • Book: The Tea Planter’s Wife
  • Location: Dickoya
  • Author: Dinah Jefferies

Review Author: BrawLass

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Content

Enjoyed the setting of the book as I visited Sri Lanka last year and could picture the tea ‘pluckers’ as they went about their work on the plantations. The author did convey the beauty of the country and the heat and humidity of the place as well as the problems of being an Englishwoman in a foreign land. However, I’m afraid I had predicted all the twists and turns the author tried to plant in the story long before I was halfway through the book. I did persevere and finish reading it but was disappointed the author didn’t make more of what could have been a good read.

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