The Tea Planter's Wife Wines the Italian cycling champion Gino

the Italian cycling champion Gino Bartali

whilst learning about different countries and cultures

With vulnerability and grace

founder of the popular blog My Scandinavian Home

Jhumpa Lahiri

The Tea Planter's Wife Wines the Italian cycling champion GinoThe story of a young woman's journey through love, motherhood and loss in 1920s Ceylon Nineteen year old Gwendolyn Hooper is newly married to a rich and charming widower, eager to join him on his tea plantation, determined to be the perfect wife and mother. But life in Ceylon is not what Gwen expected. The plantation workers are resentful, the neighbours treacherous. And there are clues to the past a dusty trunk of dresses, an overgrown gravestone in