The Girl from the Tea Garden

She’s half the world away, but her heart remains in India.In the dying days of the Raj, Anglo-Indian schoolgirl Adela Robson dreams of a glamorous career on the stage. When she sneaks away from school in the back of handsome Sam Jackman’s car, she knows a new life awaits – but it is not the one she imagined.In Simla, the summer seat of the Raj government, Adela throws herself into all the dazzling entertainments 1930s Indian society can offer a beautiful debutante. But just as her ambitions seem on the cusp of becoming reality, she meets a charming but spoilt prince, setting in motion a devastating chain of events.The outbreak of the Second World War finds Adela back in England – a country she cannot remember – without hope or love, and hiding a shameful secret. Only exceptional courage and endurance can pull her through these dark times and carry her back to the homeland of her heart.

'Trotter uses her experiences and imagination to bring strength and depth to her novels.' -- Lancashire Evening Post

Janet MacLeod Trotter is the author of numerous bestselling and acclaimed novels, including The Hungry Hills, which was nominated for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and The Tea Planter’s Daughter, which was nominated for the Romantic Novelists’ Association Novel of the Year Award. Much informed by her own experiences, MacLeod Trotter was raised in the north-east of England by Scottish parents and travelled in India as a young woman. She recently discovered diaries and letters belonging to her grandparents, who married in Lahore and lived and worked in the Punjab for nearly thirty years, which served as her inspiration for the India Tea Series. She now divides her time between Northumberland and the Isle of Skye. Sarah Coomes is an British actress and published audiobook narrator. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, learning how to cry, speak Shakespeare and stage fight like a tiger. Sarah has narrated over 30 audiobooks, voiced numerous commercials and has worked for BBC Radio. Her screen credits include Together (2018), Falling Through (2000) and Underground (1998).

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