Confusion and tragedies in British Ceylon / Sri Lanka

The Tea Planter’s Secret (Ceylon series #2) by Clare Flynn      

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A young married woman leaves Ceylon to accompany her father on a trip back to Oxford. Stella Baxter has acted as a researcher for her father, Sir Michael Polegate, an esteemed Professor of Anthropology who’d been working on an ethnographic study contrasting the Tamils of northern Ceylon and India.

It’s over eighteen months before Stella can return home to her beloved husband Norton. Her father has died and Stella has a baby girl born upon arrival in England, a baby she can scarcely look at.

Complex in plot and relationships—the dreadful Bertie Frobisher, assistant to the Governor and bully; the Governor’s wayward daughter; Stella’s brother, who apart from being an unprincipled lothario, steals his father’s and Stella’s works. Just a few of the subplots moving through the story. 

Interesting read although somewhat thin at times.

I’m undecided about picking up the series, although I do love reading novels set in this era, place and time.

A Storm ARC via NetGalley.                                              

Many thanks to the author and publisher.