Review: The Tea Planter's Daughter

The Tea Planter's Daughter by Janet MacLeod Trotter
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

4 Stars. I’d like to thank NetGalley for allowing me to read this book in exchange for my honest review.

This book takes place in the early 1900’s, Clarrie and her sister Olive are growing up on their father’s tea plantation. With their mother dead, the two girls are being raised by their father who is still grieving over his wife’s death and drowns himself in alcohol to help him deal with the loss. When the family becomes financially ruined, the girls must leave the only home they have known in India, and travel to a new country, England to live with relatives.

Clarrie, is a very strong willed girl who grows throughout the book. She is strong willed, determine, feisty, stubborn, she protects her family and fights for the underdog, she also quick to judge, makes decision and choices that are either good or come with consequences. No matter how you look at her, her journey is remarkable. She goes from having money to penniless, to a successful business woman, in a time when woman were laughed at, frowned upon, belittled, and where humiliated by men.

This book was told mainly from Clarrie, although Olive was involved, her character was one of those typical girls, who needed love, would tear up as if on cue, needed to be taken care of, instead of making it on her own and using her own brain. I did get tired of Olive’s ways, and tearing up at everything. However, Clarrie character was one I did enjoy as she was a much stronger woman. She built a relationship with Wesley, and her father didn’t approve because of who his family was.
The author did provide history, emotions, love, hate, jealousy, grief, hardship, courage, hope and triumphed. There were plenty of twist and turns not only for the pages, but also in the lives of the characters as well. A very good read.


View all my reviews