Download or read book The Tea Planter s Club written by Ann Bennett and published by Echoes of Empire. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning author Ann Bennett, comes a heart-breaking story of love and loss set in World War 2 Burma. In 1980, Edith Mayhew, proprietor of the Tea Planter's Club in Calcutta, is preparing to sell up after years of decline. She thinks back to 1942 when her sister Betty vanished having fled over the mountains from Burma to Assam to escape the Japanese invasion. Whilst packing, Edith comes across some letters which may hold clues to Betty's mysterious disappearance. The discovery propels Edith on an epic journey to Assam, where she is forced to face devastating secrets of love and betrayal from the war years.

Download or read book The Tea Planter s Club written by Ann Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning author Ann Bennett, comes a heart-breaking story of love and loss set in World War 2 Burma.In 1980, Edith Mayhew, proprietor of the Tea Planter's Club in Calcutta, is preparing to sell up after years of decline. She thinks back to 1942 when her sister Betty vanished having fled over the mountains from Burma to Assam to escape the Japanese invasion. Whilst packing, Edith comes across some letters which may hold clues to Betty's mysterious disappearance.The discovery propels Edith on an epic journey to Assam, where she is forced to face devastating secrets of love and betrayal from the war years. Praise for Ann Bennett 'A vivid account of a brutal period, and a searing exploration of trauma, memory and loss..' The Lady Magazine. 'Have just discovered this writer ... So descriptive of the Far East. Harrowing in parts but unputdownable! Best author I have read in a very long time.' Amazon Reviewer. 'This was a story of love, passion and cruelty I could not put down ....' Lizeanne Lloyd - Lost in a Good Book I raced through this book in just over twenty-four hours ... I literally could not put it down.' Bibliobeth - Goodreads. 'I really loved this haunting, powerful and beautiful novel.' Amazon Reviewer .

Download or read book The Tea Planter s Wife written by Dinah Jefferies and published by Crown. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • 1920s Ceylon: A young Englishwoman marries a charming tea plantation owner and widower, only to discover he's keeping terrible secrets about his past, including what happened to his first wife, that lead to devastating consequences In this lush, atmospheric page-turner, nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper has married Laurence, the seductively mysterious owner of a vast tea empire in colonial Ceylon, after a whirlwind romance in London. When she joins him at his faraway tea plantation, she’s filled with hope for their life together, eager to take on the role of mistress of the house, learn the tea business, and start a family. But life in Ceylon is not what Gwen expected. The plantation workers are resentful, the neighbors and her new sister-in-law treacherous. Gwen finds herself drawn to a local Sinhalese man of questionable intentions and worries about her new husband’s connection to a brash American businesswoman. But most troubling are the unanswered questions surrounding Laurence’s first marriage. Why won’t anyone discuss the fate of his first wife? Who’s buried in the unmarked grave in the forest? As the darkness of her husband’s past emerges, Gwen is forced to make a devastating choice, one that could destroy their future and Gwen’s chance at happiness.

Download or read book The Hidden Palace The Daughters of War Book 2 written by Dinah Jefferies and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An island of secrets. A runaway. And a promise...

Download or read book THE TEA PLANTER S SON written by JIMMY PYKE and published by PartridgeIndia. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1939, a young Englishman rejects a diplomatic career and leaves England to become a tea planter in Darjeeling, India. He marries an illiterate tea picker of Nepali origin and they have a son. The book continues with the son s journey through life: the prejudices he faces as an Anglo-Indian in both countries; the events in Belize, Burma, Jamaica and Sri Lanka that affect him; the women in his life; all answering the question, "what became of him?" Jimmy Pyke is an Anglo-Indian who had a distinguished legal career in London for over 45 years. He has written law books, but The Tea Planter s Son is his debut novel at the age of seventy.

Download or read book Peekay the Wayfarer Tea Planter written by BASU PRABHASH KUMAR and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life depicted in this book covers his upbringing and childhood in pre-Independent India, as well as a pioneer Indian to join Tea Estates in British-owned Tea gardens in the Dooars West Bengal as far back as in 1955. Tea Planter meant the Managerial Staff of Tea Estates, viz, the Visiting Agent, the Superintendent, Senior Managers, Managers, and Assistant Managers in British- owned Tea Estates in North East India. It was interesting to watch how the British colleagues accepted their Indian counterparts in the Field and more so in Planters Clubs, which were their Home away from Home 6000 miles away.The book takes his readers through the U.K. and USA as well as Far East as a Tourist, especially through Hongkong and finally to Japan, a very advanced Asian country which is interesting and informative. Finally, the author's entry into owning a Tea Estate and Company in collaboration with his son and their experiences thereafter.

Download or read book The Tea Planter s Bride written by Rosemary Rogers and published by Avon. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exotic flower from a faraway land, Celia came to London tobecome a proper English rose -- a wide-eyed innocent, newlyawakened by womanhood's kiss...yet burning with a sensuous heatinflamed by gypsy blood. To one she is promised -- a man ofwealth and power and property. Yet another will own her heart. He is Grant Hamilton, a daring and unpredictable Americanrogue who senses a kindred spirit in the stunning, copper-eyedbeauty whom he has agreed to escort through London'ssocial whirl. Yet Grant is determined to resist his own secretyearnings for the exuisite enchantress. For there isdanger in a love that can know no bounds -- and in a passionthat could only lead to shattering ruin...or ecstasy.

Download or read book The Sapphire Widow written by Dinah Jefferies and published by Crown. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping, breathtaking story of love and betrayal from the internationally bestselling author of The Tea Planter's Wife 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 checkered 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 . . .

Download or read book Peekay theWayfarer Tea Planter written by Prabhash Basu and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2021-09-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a memoir of a pioneer Indian Tea planter informing the outside world the inside story of Tea Estates in India ran by the Britishers in post colonial India. Having joined the Industry as a Covenanted officer in a purely British set up as far back as 1955, the book describe in detail reaction of Indian Clerical Staff and Labour finding an Indian as Chhota Saab (Assistant Manager) never seen before. It was also interesting to watch how the British Officers accepted their Indian colleagues in Office and in the field., more so in Planters Clubs, which was their Home away from Home. The book takes his readers through the U.K., USA as well as Far East as a Tourist, specially through Hongkong and finally to Japan, an advanced Asian country which is most interesting and informative.

Download or read book Bamboo Heart written by Ann Bennett and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thailand, 1943: Thomas Ellis, captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore, is a prisoner-of-war on the Death Railway. In stifling heat he endures endless days of clearing jungle, breaking stone and lugging wood. He must stay alive, although he is struck down by disease and tortured by Japanese guards, and he must stay strong, although he is starving and exhausted. For Tom has made himself a promise: to return home. Not to the grey streets of London, where he once lived, but to Penang, where he found paradise and love. London, 1986: Laura Ellis, a successful City lawyer, turns her back on her yuppie existence and travels to Southeast Asia. In Thailand and Malaysia she retraces her father’s past and discovers the truths he has refused to tell her. And in the place where her father once suffered and survived, she will finally find out how he got his Bamboo Heart. In a blend of stirring fiction and heart-wrenching history, Ann Bennett narrates the story of a soldier’s strength and survival in the bleakest of times and a daughter’s journey of discovery about her father and herself. Bamboo Heart is volume one in a Southeast Asian WWII trilogy that includes Bamboo Island and Bamboo Road.

Download or read book Bamboo Island written by Ann Bennett and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juliet Crosby has lived a reclusive life on her Malayan rubber plantation since the Second World War robbed her of everyone she loved. However, the sudden appearance of a young woman from Indonesia disrupts her lonely existence and stirs up unsettling memories. Juliet is forced to recollect her prewar marriage, her wartime ordeals in Japanese-occupied Singapore and the loss of those she once held dear. Bamboo Island is part of a Southeast Asian WWII trilogy of historical fiction that can be read in any order and includes Bamboo Heart and Bamboo Road.

Download or read book The Tea Planter s Daughter written by Sara Banerji and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-03-30 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today is Julia Clockhouse's twenty-fifth birthday. Her long-suffering Hindu servants are frantically trying to organise a party for her, but it's hard to do so amid the havoc wreaked by her wild spirit. They think she is possessed. Daughters of colonial tea-planters shouldn't have souls that escape their bodies, move objects with their minds, hear tongueless yogis speak. Julia Clockhouse does. As the day passes and the chaos mounts in the kitchen, Julia listens desperately for the return of her husband. Ben may have married her on the orders of her domineering father, but he had come to love her; together they had found the happiness they missed in childhood. But by the time the party guests are tumbling in from the rising fury of the monsoon Ben has still not come. Sara Banerji narrates the events of an extraordinary birthday with deft humour and haunting eloquence, weaving into Julia's story a picture of an isolated tea-plantation and all those who live there. The Tea-Planter's Daughter is a captivating flight of the imagination firmly rooted in the reality of the South Indian hills.

Download or read book Tea Love and War written by Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon Honorary Consultant and Senior Clinical Lecturer David Mitchell and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The range of the book: from wartime England to colonial Assam; from sapper training in India to jungle warfare in Malaya – Tea, Love and War tells the unique true story of the child of an exploited village woman gaining recognition and acceptance in suburban England. It is split into three parts: Stuart and Mary’s story, David’s story, and Ann’s story.Stuart, working on a tea estate in the jungles of Assam, fathers a child by a teenage native woman. Stuart’s letters to his family in pre-war England vividly describe his life as a planter in colonial India but conceal his secret love life. When war breaks out, Stuart joins the Indian army, trains as a sapper and is posted to Malaya, blowing bridges in the desperate rearguard action against the Japanese invasion. Back in wartime England, his sister Mary marries Stuart’s best friend, Arthur, who decides to train as an army officer. Mary, now a young mother pregnant with her second child, tells of the year’s delay in hearing news of her brother’s death at the fall of Singapore. Before the child is born, she learns that Arthur has been killed in action in Italy. The story switches to a jungle village in Assam where a small Anglo-Indian child named Ann fights her way through poverty and discrimination, always seeking the identity of her father and his family.Tea, Love and War is a gripping true story, narrated by Mary through her son David. “Much of the text is taken from the many exercise books that she filled with her memories, and whilst my investigations have expanded and updated her story, the history of the relevant elements of the Second World War, the Blitz and public perception of the Malayan campaign leading to the fall of Singapore are more eloquently seen from her individual viewpoint.” The book will appeal to fans of autobiographies, history and social history – Anglo-Indian culture and exploitation of women in India are key themes in the text – and has been inspired by Wild Swans.

Download or read book The Separation written by Dinah Jefferies and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TEA PLANTER'S WIFE The Separation by Dinah Jefferies is a sweeping novel set in 1950s Malaya, about a mother searching for her daughters. What happens when a mother and her daughters are separated; who do they become when they believe it might be forever? 1953, the eve of the Cartwright's departure from Malaya. Eleven-year-old Emma can't understand why they're leaving without their mother; why her taciturn father is refusing to answer questions. Lydia arrives home to an empty house - there's no sign of her husband Alec or her daughters. Panic stricken, she embarks on a dangerous journey to find them through the hot and civil-war-torn Malayan jungle - one that only the power of a mother's love can help her to survive. 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. The Separation is her first book.

Download or read book Whispers Across Continents In Search of the Robinsons written by Gareth Winrow and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the lens of an extraordinary family, a number of fascinating stories relating to the wider tumult of late 19th century Europe are revealed. Playing an instrumental role in the Ottoman Empire, the story of the Robinsons is an incredible rags-to-riches tale that stretches from the tenant farms of Lincolnshire to the palaces of Constantinople.

Download or read book The Tea Planter s Daughter written by Janet MacLeod Trotter and published by Lake Union Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lush, green, fragrant: the Indian hills of Assam are full of promise. But eighteen-year-old Clarissa Belhaven is full of worry. The family tea plantation is suffering, and so is her father, still grieving over the untimely death of his wife, while Clarissa's fragile sister, Olive, needs love and resourceful care. Beautiful and headstrong, Clarissa soon attracts the attention of young, brash Wesley Robson, a rival tea planter. Yet before his intentions become fully clear, tragedy befalls the Belhavens and the sisters are wrenched from their beloved tea garden to the industrial streets of Tyneside. A world away from the only home she has ever known, Clarissa must start again. Using all her means, she must endure not only poverty but jealousy and betrayal too. Will the reappearance of Wesley give her the link to her old life that she so desperately craves? Or will a fast-changing world and the advent of war extinguish hope forever? Revised edition: This edition of The Tea Planter's Daughter includes editorial revisions.

Download or read book Daughters of War The Daughters of War Book 1 written by Dinah Jefferies and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new sweeping historical novel of World War II from the international bestselling author of The Tea Planter’s Wife