The Colonials Collection

by Liz Harris

Four epic tales of love, envy and malice set in the 1930s, the time of the British Raj, which will take the reader from the sweeping tea plantations of Darjeeling, to the palm-tree lined coast of exotic Cochin, South India, to Simla, the summer capital of the British Raj, which lies in the shadow of the snow-crusted Himalayas, and to the bustling streets Hanoi, in a Vietnam colonised by the French. Set on three tea plantations, Darjeeling Inheritance tells the story of Charlotte Lawrence, who inherited a tea plantation on her father’s sudden death. Cochin Fall shows how a simple misunderstanding threatened the happiness of Clara Saunders and that of her trader family. Simla Mist tells how one person’s hostility towards her father, a member of the British Government in India, endangered the family and the future of Lilian Hunt. Hanoi Spring takes the reader to Hanoi, Vietnam, where Lucette Delon had just settled with her husband, who holds a high position in the French administration. Unknown to them, they hover at the fringe of a dangerous intrigue. The characters in Liz Harris’s four page-turning novels set in Asia in the 1930s will capture your interest and your heart, and grip you until the very last word.

1360 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 22, 2023

About the author

Born in London, Liz Harris graduated from university with a Law degree, and then moved to California, where she led a varied life, from waitressing on Sunset Strip to working as secretary to the CEO of a large Japanese trading company.

Six years later, she returned to London and completed a degree in English, after which she taught secondary school pupils, first in Berkshire, then Cheshire, and then in Oxfordshire.

In addition to the eighteen novels she’s had published, she’s had several short stories in anthologies and magazines.

Liz now lives in Windsor, Berkshire. An active member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association and the Historical Novel Society, her interests are travel, the theatre, reading and cryptic crosswords.

To find out more about Liz, visit her website at: www.lizharrisauthor.com. You can sign up to her monthly newsletter from her website, and as a thank-you gift, you’ll receive a free book, Word Perfect, a romance set in California.