The Tea Planter's Children Throughout there is a real feeling of a particular time. It is filled with a child''s love of place and nature, and manages successfully to enter the reader into a vanished world. ''The Tea Planter''
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| Title | : | The Tea Planter's Children |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.66 (123 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1420896296 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 244 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2006-04-21 |
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Editorial : About the Author Born on a remote tea plantation in South India, Eve Baker and her younger brother developed a love of books and of inventing games and stories which became a life-long passion.At boarding school in England during the 1930s, Eve became the dormitory story-teller, wrote poems and novels in her exercise books and won prizes for stories in the school magazine. While serving in the WAAF during the last war, and afterwards at Art School where she obtained a degree in painting, she continued to write, although she did not submit any of her work for publication.She married while at Art School, and had five children and later, when they began to leave home, Eve Baker started to concentrate on her writing once more and to join local writing courses. One of the courses evolved into a Writer''s Group, which Eve has hosted for the last fifteen years, writing a story for each weekly session and helping to produce five anthologies. ''The Tea Planter''s Children'' grew from stories wr
''The Tea Planter''s Children'' is rich, evocative , gentle and beautiful. It is filled with a child''s love of place and nature, and manages successfully to enter the reader into a vanished world. Throughout there is a real feeling of a particular time. It describes a childhood at Arnakal, a tea plantation in the hills of Kerala during the early nineteen-thirties, which were years of recession and high unemployment in England and the rise of Fascism in Europe. In India, Mahatma Ghandi, not yet the revered figure we now remember, was campaigning for Independence. Discussed by their parents, these political goings-on were in the background of the children''s lives. ''The Tea Planter''s Children'' is a recollection of a childhood spent in a remote place with little contact with other European children, where the freedom they were allowed led to hilarious if sometimes nearly disastrous adventures, and describes the discoveries the children made, the unsuitable pets they tried to keep, the
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