The Tea Planter's Lass

by JanetMacLeodTrotter (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2008

  $3.29

  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...

• Used

  Hardcover
  2007

  $5.16

  This is a gripping and heartrending novel set against the backdrop of the thriving tea trade in turn-of-the-century Tyneside 1905, India. Clarissa Belhaven and her sister Olive have grown up on their widowed father's tea plantation. When he dies after a row with brash young business rival Wesley Robson, the sisters are forced to return to their father's family in Tyneside. Clarissa is shocked by the hard lives of the locals, and dreams of opening her own tea room which could be a safe haven for them. Then Wesley Robson comes back into her life, bringing with him the power to change Clarissa's life for ever!