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Layla Roy has defied the fates. Despite being created under an inauspicious horoscope, she is lifted to be educated and impartial by her eccentric grandfather, Dadamoshai. And, by cleverly manipulating the hands lot of money has dealt her, she's even found love with Manik Deb - a guy betrothed to some other. All were minor wonders in India that planting season of 1943, when young women's lives were predetermined - if not by the stars, then by hundreds of years of family custom and public order. Layla's life as a recently married woman can take her away from home and in to the jungles of Assam, where in fact the world's finest tea thrives on plantations run by local labor and British efficiency. Fascinated with this culture of whiskey-soaked expats who appear fazed by neither earthquakes nor man-eating leopards, she battles to find her place on the list of prickly British wives with whom she is likely to socialize, and the peculiar servants she now finds under her fee. But navigating the tea-garden set will rarely be her biggest task. Layla's remote control home is not safe from the powerful changes sweeping India on the heels of the Second World War. Their colonial culture is at a tipping point, and Layla and Manik end up caught in a perilous racial split that threatens their very lives.

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