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Reunion At the Tea Garden
(2024)(The fifth book in the India Tea series)
A novel by Janet MacLeod Trotter
Will her search for the truth about long-buried secrets, bring about family reconciliation or further heartache and tragedy?
Growing up on a tea plantation in 1950s India as an only child, spirited Samantha (Sammy) Jackman has an idyllic, if solitary, childhood. But with the 1960s comes dramatic change; she is sent to boarding school in England but back home in India a border war breaks out with China, leaving her desperately worried for her family in Assam. Life is changing for the British tea planters who stayed on after Independence. A ceasefire enables her to return to India for Christmas, to her beloved Belgooree – the family home and estate of her cherished grandmother Clarrie – for a reunion with her parents and wider family. But the happy occasion ends in angry recriminations when a long-hidden old photo brings to light a traumatic and deeply troubling family secret. Sammy’s life is turned upside down and a gaping rift opens up between her and her mother.
On the verge of adulthood, determined to forge her own path in life away from India and her family, Sammy is also driven by the desire to unravel the long-buried secrets of her family’s past and she goes in search of answers. But will her meddling lead to a reconciliation with her anguished mother or stir up further heartache and tragedy?
REUNION AT THE TEA GARDEN spans the era of great change in post-Second World War India and Britain, and brings the INDIA TEA SERIES to a dramatically poignant and passionate conclusion.
Genre: Historical Romance
Growing up on a tea plantation in 1950s India as an only child, spirited Samantha (Sammy) Jackman has an idyllic, if solitary, childhood. But with the 1960s comes dramatic change; she is sent to boarding school in England but back home in India a border war breaks out with China, leaving her desperately worried for her family in Assam. Life is changing for the British tea planters who stayed on after Independence. A ceasefire enables her to return to India for Christmas, to her beloved Belgooree – the family home and estate of her cherished grandmother Clarrie – for a reunion with her parents and wider family. But the happy occasion ends in angry recriminations when a long-hidden old photo brings to light a traumatic and deeply troubling family secret. Sammy’s life is turned upside down and a gaping rift opens up between her and her mother.
On the verge of adulthood, determined to forge her own path in life away from India and her family, Sammy is also driven by the desire to unravel the long-buried secrets of her family’s past and she goes in search of answers. But will her meddling lead to a reconciliation with her anguished mother or stir up further heartache and tragedy?
REUNION AT THE TEA GARDEN spans the era of great change in post-Second World War India and Britain, and brings the INDIA TEA SERIES to a dramatically poignant and passionate conclusion.
Genre: Historical Romance
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