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Il profumo delle foglie di tè - La figlia del mercante di seta - La separazione
3 romanzi indimenticabili
Numero 1 in Italia e Inghilterra
Autrice bestseller del Sunday Times
Travolgenti passioni, grandi amori, oscuri segreti: tre storie intense e romantiche che hanno il profumo di luoghi e tempi lontani.
Gwendolyn, giovane inglese, si è trasferita nell’isola di Ceylon, per raggiungere il marito. Ma l’uomo che l’ha accolta non è lo stesso di cui si era innamorata in Inghilterra. Distante e indaffarato, Laurence è spesso assente e agli occhi di Gwen la grande casa coloniale appare un luogo misterioso, con indizi di un torbido passato… Quali segreti nasconde Il profumo delle foglie di tè?
Indocina francese, 1952. Nicole, diciottenne franco-vietnamita, è sempre vissuta all’ombra della sorella maggiore Sylvie, che ha preso le redini degli affari di famiglia. A Nicole non resta che la gestione di un vecchio negozio, nel quartiere vietnamita di Hanoi. Qui, a contatto con militanti ribelli, La figlia del mercante di seta dovrà fare la scelta giusta, capire di chi fidarsi…
Malesia, 1955. Di ritorno dalla visita a un’amica, Lydia Cartwright trova la casa completamente vuota. Nessuna traccia del marito, delle figlie o dei servitori. E suo marito, dove ha portato Emma e Fleur? Tra la Malesia e l’Inghilterra si snoda l’appassionante storia di una madre e di una figlia che continuano a cercarsi, sorrette dalla speranza di potersi finalmente ritrovare.
L’autrice numero 1 in Italia e in Inghilterra
Tradotta in 19 Paesi
Numero 1 in Italia e Inghilterra
Autrice bestseller del Sunday Times
Travolgenti passioni, grandi amori, oscuri segreti: tre storie intense e romantiche che hanno il profumo di luoghi e tempi lontani.
Gwendolyn, giovane inglese, si è trasferita nell’isola di Ceylon, per raggiungere il marito. Ma l’uomo che l’ha accolta non è lo stesso di cui si era innamorata in Inghilterra. Distante e indaffarato, Laurence è spesso assente e agli occhi di Gwen la grande casa coloniale appare un luogo misterioso, con indizi di un torbido passato… Quali segreti nasconde Il profumo delle foglie di tè?
Indocina francese, 1952. Nicole, diciottenne franco-vietnamita, è sempre vissuta all’ombra della sorella maggiore Sylvie, che ha preso le redini degli affari di famiglia. A Nicole non resta che la gestione di un vecchio negozio, nel quartiere vietnamita di Hanoi. Qui, a contatto con militanti ribelli, La figlia del mercante di seta dovrà fare la scelta giusta, capire di chi fidarsi…
Malesia, 1955. Di ritorno dalla visita a un’amica, Lydia Cartwright trova la casa completamente vuota. Nessuna traccia del marito, delle figlie o dei servitori. E suo marito, dove ha portato Emma e Fleur? Tra la Malesia e l’Inghilterra si snoda l’appassionante storia di una madre e di una figlia che continuano a cercarsi, sorrette dalla speranza di potersi finalmente ritrovare.
L’autrice numero 1 in Italia e in Inghilterra
Tradotta in 19 Paesi
1056 pages, Hardcover
Published March 22, 2018
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About the author
Dinah Jefferies
23 books1,296 followers*Breaking News* Richard & Judy pick THE TEA PLANTERS WIFE for their autumn bookclub 2015. Here's what Santa Montefiore said: ‘My ideal read; mystery, love, heart-break and joy – I couldn’t put it down.’
Here's what Richard Madeley said. "The Tea Planter’s Wife is so much more than a conventional love story, with all its twists and turns and guilt and betrayal...deeply impressive. The fetid, steamy atmosphere of the tropics rises from these pages like a humid mist. We are on a tea plantation in 1920s Ceylon and 19 year old Gwendolyn Hooper is the new bride of the owner, a wealthy and charming widower. But her romantic dreams of marriage are overshadowed by echoes from the past – an old trunk of musty dresses; an overgrown and neglected gravestone in the grounds. Her new husband refuses to talk about them. Gwen’s perfect man is becoming a perfect stranger…"
Quote from the great author Kate Furnivall about my first book THE SEPARATION:
'A powerful story of love and loss that is utterly captivating. I was drawn deep into the world of Malaya and England in the 1950s in this intense exploration of what it means to love. Beautifully written and wonderfully atmospheric, Dinah Jefferies skilfully captures this fragile moment of history in a complex and thrilling tale. THE SEPARATION is a gripping and intelligent read.'
In 1985, the sudden death of Dinah Jefferies’ fourteen year old son brought her life to a standstill. She drew on that experience, and on her own childhood spent in Malaya during the 1950s to write her debut novel, The Separation. The guns piled high on the hall table when the rubber planters came into town for a party, the colour and noise of Chinatown, the houses on stilts, and the lizards that left their tails behind.
Now living in Gloucestershire, Dinah once lived in Tuscany working as an au pair for an Italian countess; she has also lived in a ‘hippy’ rock’n roll commune based in an Elizabethan manor house, but started writing when she was living in a small 16th Century village in Spain.
Here's what Richard Madeley said. "The Tea Planter’s Wife is so much more than a conventional love story, with all its twists and turns and guilt and betrayal...deeply impressive. The fetid, steamy atmosphere of the tropics rises from these pages like a humid mist. We are on a tea plantation in 1920s Ceylon and 19 year old Gwendolyn Hooper is the new bride of the owner, a wealthy and charming widower. But her romantic dreams of marriage are overshadowed by echoes from the past – an old trunk of musty dresses; an overgrown and neglected gravestone in the grounds. Her new husband refuses to talk about them. Gwen’s perfect man is becoming a perfect stranger…"
Quote from the great author Kate Furnivall about my first book THE SEPARATION:
'A powerful story of love and loss that is utterly captivating. I was drawn deep into the world of Malaya and England in the 1950s in this intense exploration of what it means to love. Beautifully written and wonderfully atmospheric, Dinah Jefferies skilfully captures this fragile moment of history in a complex and thrilling tale. THE SEPARATION is a gripping and intelligent read.'
In 1985, the sudden death of Dinah Jefferies’ fourteen year old son brought her life to a standstill. She drew on that experience, and on her own childhood spent in Malaya during the 1950s to write her debut novel, The Separation. The guns piled high on the hall table when the rubber planters came into town for a party, the colour and noise of Chinatown, the houses on stilts, and the lizards that left their tails behind.
Now living in Gloucestershire, Dinah once lived in Tuscany working as an au pair for an Italian countess; she has also lived in a ‘hippy’ rock’n roll commune based in an Elizabethan manor house, but started writing when she was living in a small 16th Century village in Spain.
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February 4, 2021
Letto in meno di una settimana... storia avvincente...lettura semplice e poco impegnata...
April 21, 2023
All three stories were brilliant. Dinah Jeffrey's makes you feel as if you are there on the plantations. Drawing you deep into their lives.
June 19, 2023
Another page turner by Dinah. I’ve read all her books and enjoy them but they have begun to be a little too similar.
June 13, 2020
I only read The Tea Planter’s Wife. Started slow for me but got better as read more
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