THE MAIN SUNDAY Moments BESTSELLER

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook release from the Tea Planter’s Wife by Dinah Jefferies, read by Avita Jay.

Nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper is usually newly married to a rich and charming widower, eager to join him in his tea plantation, established to be an ideal wife and mother.

But life in Ceylon isn’t what Gwen anticipated. The plantation employees are resentful, the neighbours treacherous. And you will find clues to the past – a dusty trunk of dresses, an overgrown gravestone in the grounds – that her spouse refuses to discuss.

Just like Gwen finds her ft, disaster strikes. She encounters an awful choice, hiding the truth from everyone, but a secret this big can’t stay buried permanently .