A heartbreaking tale of a family fractured by lies and one mother's love reaching across the distance of years and continents.
An utterly captivating story of love and loss. Thrilling, gripping and intelligent
A tense and steamy 1950s Malaya, beautifully described. I loved it
Dinah Jefferies was born in Malaysia and moved to England at the age of nine. Her idyllic childhood always held a special place in her imagination, and when she began writing novels in her 60s, she was able to return there - first in her fiction and then on annual research trips for each new novel. Dinah Jefferies is the author of novels, The Separation, The Tea Planter's Wife - a Number One Sunday Times bestseller, The Silk Merchant's Daughter, Before the Rains and The Missing Sister. She lives in Gloucestershire.