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The Tea Planter's Lass

Janet Macleod Trotter

1905 India. Clarissa Belhaven and her younger sister Olive live a charmed life on their father's tea plantation. But when the business begins to fail their future looks uncertain. Young rival businessman Wesley Robson offers a lifeline: he will help save the plantation in exchange for Clarrie's hand in marriage. But her father refuses and after his death the girls are sent to his family in Tyneside with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Amidst the dire poverty of Newcastle Clarrie slogs away to provide for her sister but longs to one day open her own tea room. After years of sacrifice her dreams are finally within reach. Then Wesley Robson comes back into Clarrie's life bringing with him a shocking revelation and the power to change her world for ever...

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  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : OCT 1, 2008
  • Imprint : Headline
  • Page Extent : 576
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780755330935
  • Price : INR 425
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Janet Macleod Trotter

Janet MacLeod Trotter was born in Newcastle and grew up in Durham. She has been editor of the Clan MacLeod magazine a columnist on the Newcastle Journal and has had numerous short stories published in women's magazines as well as a novel for teenagers. Her first novel The Hungry Hills gained her a place on the shortlist of The Sunday Times' Young Writers' Award. She lives in Northumberland with her husband and their two children. Find out more about Janet and her other popular novels at: www.janetmacleodtrotter.com>

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