The Tea Planter’s Wife by Dinah Jeffries is a historical fiction set in Ceylon during the 1920’s. A young Englishwoman marries a tea plantation owner and moves to Ceylon, only to discover that his family has many dark secrets she is unaware of.

It is a novel about race and culture, prejudice, guilt and family, and of course, tea. Jeffries captures the cultural tensions between the locals and Europeans as well as the tension between the Sinhalese people and the Tamils that still exists today. I loved being transported back in time to a tea plantation in Ceylon. An enjoyable read.