The Tea Planter's Wife

The 19-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper She steps off the steamship in Ceylon, filled with optimism and eagerness to join her new husband. But the man who greets her at the tea plantation is not the same man she fell in love with in London. Reserved and gloomy, Lawrence spends long days buried in work, leaving his young wife to explore the plantation on her own. It is a place haunted by ghosts of the past—locked doors, a yellowed wedding dress in a dusty trunk, and an overgrown grave hidden at the far end of the garden...

Gwen soon becomes pregnant, but after giving birth, she is faced with a terrible choice that she is certain no one in their social circle will understand. Forced to bury the secret at the very heart of her marriage, the young mother feels more isolated than ever. When the time comes to reveal the truth, how will her husband understand what she has done—and why?

„The Tea Planter's Wife“ is a story of guilt, betrayal, and unspoken secrets, enchantingly told against the backdrop of colonial Ceylon