Teatime for the Firefly
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1940's India. During this volatile and transitional time in the country's fight for independence, Layla is astrologically doomed never to marry. Manik's career and arranged marriage were charted for success. But by cleverly manipulating the hand fortune has dealt her, Layla has found love with Manik. Layla's life as a newly married woman takes her away from home and into the jungles of Assam, where the world's finest tea thrives on plantations run by native labor and British efficiency. Fascinated by this culture of whiskey-soaked expats who seem fazed by neither earthquakes nor man-eating leopards, she struggles to find her place among the prickly English wives with whom she is expected to socialize, and the peculiar servants she now finds under her charge.
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PUBLISHED
Don Mills, Ontario : Harlequin MIRA, 2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: 427 pages ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780778315476
0778315479
SUBJECTS
Plantation life -- India -- Fiction.
Women -- India -- Fiction.
India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947 -- Fiction.