Lake Union Publishing
Featuring: James Robson; Tilly Watson; Sophie Logan
406 pages ISBN: 1503934209 EAN: 9781503934207 Kindle: B01A8G7OHW Paperback / e-Book (reprint) Add to Wish List
This sequel to 'The Tea Planter's Daughter' is somewhat
confusingly in a series called 'India Tea' while the first
book was in 'Tyneside Sagas'. I suppose that is what
happens when books get reissued and find new markets. In
1922 the story takes up in Scotland, but before long we are
heading back to the hill country north where tea is grown
in India. THE TEA PLANTER'S BRIDE is Sophie Logan who is
born in India but goes to Scotland as a child after a
tribal mutiny.
Sophie's father had worked for a tea company which took
care of the girl after his death, and she lives with an
aunt in Edinburgh. But her family still have connections in
the tea trade. The First World War has changed many lives.
For a start, Sophie learnt to drive while working in a Red
Cross depot. Now she rides her own motorcycle. The
population had to drink inferior dusty tea during the war
years, and fortunes are picking up for planters. Meanwhile
James Robson, heir to a tea plantation, has come to England
to find a suitable wife. He's a man in trade, so he can't
aspire to the high society. That still leaves plenty of
good young women. One such is Tilly Watson, Sophie's kind
cousin. With Tilly happily preparing to travel, Sophie
starts to wish for adventure and an exotic life. Is she
right to want to marry a forestry student just because he
is heading to India? She may be wise or in for a rude
awakening.
Snobbery of various sorts abounds, starting on the trip to
India. Off the ship, the full heat, colour and noise of
their new home startles both young women. Illness and fever
stalk the British and there are more challenges ahead,
including motherhood. Paradise it's not. But kindness is
found, even among the impoverished labourers who are hoping
for better conditions. Through old newspapers Tilly and
Sophie discover more details about the preceding decades.
The era is well evoked by author Janet MacLeod Trotter and
all sides of disputes are presented. Reading THE TEA
PLANTER'S BRIDE will give readers a good understanding of
the difficult and tense colonial years. The British are
building roads and bridges, but paying labourers poorly,
while young Indian women are starting to train as doctors
for women. I particularly enjoyed the Himalayan expedition.
See if you could cope with all that is thrown at the
heroines of this fascinating historical romance. Third in
the series will be called 'Girl From The Tea Garden'.
When Sophie is suddenly orphaned at the age of six, she is
taken from her parents’ tea plantation, the only home she
has ever known, to be raised halfway across the world in
Scotland.
As the years pass and her exotic childhood becomes a distant
memory, adventurous Sophie finds refuge in her friendship
with her kind, shy cousin, Tilly. It is no surprise when the
girls follow each other to India to embark on new
adventures, new lives and new loves.
But the reality of 1920s India is far removed from their
dream: the jungles are too humid and the breathtaking tea
gardens too remote. And amongst the stifling beauty,
intrigue abounds; while Sophie struggles with affairs of the
heart, Tilly, alone in a difficult world, delves into the
mystery of Sophie’s parents’ deaths. As the past begins to
darken their friendship, will long-held secrets shatter
everything they’ve ever striven for?
Revised edition: This edition of The Tea Planter's
Bride includes editorial revisions.
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