The Tea Planter's Son
Author | : Jimmy Pyke |
Publisher | : Partridge Publishing |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2014-03-24 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781482819731 |
ISBN-13 | : 1482819732 |
Rating | : 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: In 1939, a young Englishman rejects a diplomatic career and leaves England to become a tea planter in Darjeeling, India. He marries an illiterate tea picker of Nepali origin and they have a son. The book continues with the sons journey through life: the prejudices he faces as an Anglo-Indian in both countries; the events in Belize, Burma, Jamaica and Sri Lanka that affect him; the women in his life; all answering the question, what became of him? Jimmy Pyke is an Anglo-Indian who had a distinguished legal career in London for over 45 years. He has written law books, but The Tea Planters Son is his debut novel at the age of seventy.