A beautiful story studded with details and descriptions that really make you feel you are experiencing 1930s India and the tea gardens. It was obviously well researched.
The characters are well drawn and although the outcome is a bit predictable, albeit satisfactory if you like the characters, that doesn't distracte from the reading pleasure.

Charlotte Lawrence has at last returned to her family’s tea plantation in Sundar after an extended stay in England for schooling. Instead of the warm homecoming she’s expecting, she discovers her father dies just days earlier. The plantation, and all its responsibilities are now hers. Even though there is an unspoken expectation that Charlotte marry a neighboring planter, she asks her plantation manager to show her how to run the plantation herself. In a dual storyline, Charlotte’s chaperone, Ada has married the owner of another tea plantation. This book is a sweeping saga set during India in the final days of the British Raj. Totally immersive