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  • Published: 3 December 2024
  • ISBN: 9781761350979
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $26.00

The Tea Gardens




A heartbreaking story about the pursuit of passion by the bestselling author of The Sugar Palace.

MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR

‘An ideal poolside summer holiday read’ SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

‘Fiona McIntosh is an extraordinary storyteller’ BOOK'D OUT

Spirited doctor Isla Fenwick is determined to work at the coalface of medicine in India before committing to life as a dutiful wife. With hopes of making a difference in the world, she sails to Calcutta to set up a midwifery clinic. There she will be forced to question her beliefs, her professionalism and her romantic loyalties.

On a desperate rescue mission to save the one person who needs her the most, she travels into the foothills of the Himalayas to a tea plantation outside Darjeeling. At the roof of the world, where heaven and earth collide, Isla will be asked to pay the ultimate price for her passions.

From England’s seaside town of Brighton to India’s slums of Calcutta and the breathtaking Himalayan mountains, this is a wildly exciting novel of heroism, heartache and healing.

  • Published: 3 December 2024
  • ISBN: 9781761350979
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $26.00

About the author

Fiona McIntosh

Fiona McIntosh is an internationally and million-copy bestselling author of novels for adults and children across several genres. Alongside her highly successful historical fiction titles, for which she has been nominated at the Australian Book Industry Awards for commercial fiction book of the year, her popular Detective Jack Hawksworth series will soon be released across the UK. Several of her historical titles as well as the ‘world of Hawksworth’ crime novels have been optioned for the screen. Her debut children’s picture book, Harry and Gran Bake a Cake, will be published in 2025. Fiona roams the world for her research and lives between Adelaide in South Australia and Wiltshire in England.

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Praise for The Tea Gardens

McIntosh’s riveting, page-turner style makes this book an ideal poolside summer holiday read.

Sydney Morning Herald

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