Janet MacLeod Trotterová je uznávaná autorka, jejíž díla se často noří do historických kulis a lidských vztahů. Její bohatý styl vyprávění a schopnost vykreslit živé postavy čtenáře pohltí. Prostřednictvím svých románů zkoumá složitosti života, lásky a ztráty, přičemž často čerpá z bohaté historie a krajiny své rodné Anglie a Skotska. Trotterová nabízí čtenářům poutavý a dojemný literární zážitek.
Indie, 1904: Krásná Clarissa odmítne nabídku k sňatku od staršího majitele čajové plantáže, který chce právě tímto spojením vykoupit dívčinu rodinu z dluhů. Krátce poté umírá její ovdovělý otec a Clarissa s mladší sestrou odjíždí k příbuzným do Anglie. Tam je nucena dřít v hostinci otcova hamižného bratrance. Ačkoliv se kolem ní spřádá pavučina intrik a nenávisti, nehodlá se vzdát naděje na štěstí a lásku.
She's gone in search of happy memories. But was her idyllic childhood in India an illusion? After the Second World War, Libby Robson leaves chilly England for India, and the childhood home where she left her heart--and her beloved father, James--fourteen years ago. At first Libby is intoxicated by India's vibrant beauty: the bustle of Calcutta, the lush tea gardens of Assam. But beneath the surface a rebellion is simmering: India is on the brink of Independence, and the days of British rule are numbered. As the owner of a tea plantation, James embodies the hated colonial regime, and Libby finds herself questioning her idealised memories--particularly when she meets the dashing freedom fighter Ghulam Khan. As Independence looms, life in India becomes precarious for Libby, James and even Ghulam. And when James reveals a shameful family secret, Libby is forced to question her past--and her future.
In the dying days of the Raj, Anglo-Indian schoolgirl Adela Robson dreams of a glamorous career on the stage. When she sneaks away from school in the back of handsome Sam Jackman's car, she knows a new life awaits--but it is not the one she imagined. In Simla, the summer seat of the Raj government, Adela throws herself into all the dazzling entertainments 1930s Indian society can offer a beautiful debutante. But just as her ambitions seem on the cusp of becoming reality, she meets a charming but spoilt prince, setting in motion a devastating chain of events. The outbreak of the Second World War finds Adela back in England--a country she cannot remember--without hope or love, and hiding a shameful secret. Only exceptional courage and endurance can pull her through these dark times and carry her back to the homeland of her heart.
To escape her possessive and drunken step-father, Kate is sent away from teaming Jarrow to work on the Ravensworth Estate. She is soon attracting the attention of charming, headstrong Alexander and dares to dream of a future with him. But when Kate discovers herself pregnant and alone she must return to face the wrath of her step-father.
In the dying days of the Raj, can paths divided by time and circumstance ever find each other again? In 1930s Northern India, childhood friends Stella and Andrew have grown up together in the orbit of the majestic Raj Hotel. Spirited Stella has always had a soft spot for boisterous Andrew, though she dreams of meeting a soulmate from outside the close-knit community. But life is turned on its head when one scandal shatters their friendship and another sees her abandoned by the man she thought she loved. As the Second World War looms, Andrew joins the army to fight for freedom. Meanwhile in India, Stella, reeling from her terrible betrayal, also throws herself into the war effort, volunteering for the Women's Auxiliary Corps, resigned to living a lonelier life than the one she dreamed of as a child. When Andrew returns to the East on the eve of battle with Japan, the two former friends are reunited, though bitter experience has changed them. Can they rekindle what they once had or will war demand of their friendship the ultimate sacrifice?
Cousins and best friends, Sophie and Tilly are looking for love and adventure Sophie, orphaned at six, has been brought up by a radical aunt. Tilly meanwhile has lived a sheltered life in Newcastle. Tilly surprises everyone with a whirlwind marriage to a confirmed bachelor and tea planter, James Robson, following him to India. Thinking herself in love with the charming, enigmatic forester Tam, the independent Sophie decides to follow him when he also goes to India. Set against the vivid backdrop of post WWI Britain and the changing world of India under the British Raj.
Childhood memoir of a Beatle-mad, ex-pat Scot growing up in the North-East of England in the 1960s and journeying to Skye. The only girl in a boys' boarding school, Janet's amusing and touching tales vividly re-create the lost world of '60s Durham and the Scottish Highlands before mass tourism.
Brought up on her parents' smallholding in Jarrow in the harsh years of the 1870s, Rose dreams of a world beyond the grime of the town, a world glimpsed at a fairytale wedding at Ravensworth as a child. Capturing the heart of steelworker William a better life is in reach. But tragedy strikes and Rose must save her young family from destitution.
Rebellious Catherine (Kitty) McMullen, resentful of her new step-father and yearning to escape impoverished Jarrow, determines to educate herself.Soon streetwise Kitty is a ghost of the past and the well-spoken, well-read Catherine leaves the north-east to follow her dreams.But she encounters hardship and heartbreak on the road to self-discovery.
An RNA Romantic Novel Award nominee. From shipwreck and heartbreak to treachery and war: can their love survive? Abandoned as a baby and raised in a remote lighthouse off the wild Northumberland coast, Alice Fairchild has always dreamed of adventure. When a fierce storm wrecks a ship nearby, she risks everything in an act of bravery that alters the course of her life. Aboard the doomed vessel is the handsome John Sinclair, a Scottish soldier on his way to India. The connection between them is instant, but soon fate intervenes and leaves Alice heartbroken and alone. Determined to take charge of her destiny but secretly hoping her path will cross again with John's, she too makes a new start in colonial India. Life there is colourful and exotic, but beneath the bright facade is an undercurrent of violence, and when the British invade Afghanistan, Alice is caught up in the dangerous campaign. When at last she hears news of John, she is torn between two very different lives. But will she follow her head or her heart?
An emotionally charged family drama set against the momentous backdrop of the 1984 Miners' Strike that divided a nation. Rebellious Carol defies her family to marry miner Mick Todd, but the strike brings tragedy, shocking secrets and tests their love to the limits.
In this evocative tale of life in India between the wars, friendships will be tested and loyalties torn. But can love win the day? In Scotland in the aftermath of the First World War, nurse Esmie McBride meets handsome Captain Tom Lomax at her best friend Lydia’s home. Esmie is at first concerned for Tom’s shell shock, then captivated by his charm, but it’s effervescent Lydia he marries, and the pair begin a new adventure together in India. When marriage to Tom’s doctor friend Harold offers Esmie the chance to work in India, the two sets of newlyweds find themselves living wildly different lives on the subcontinent. Esmie, heartbroken but resolved, is nursing at a mission hospital on the North West Frontier. Lydia, meanwhile, is the glamorous mistress of the Raj Hotel, where Tom hopes his sociable new wife will dazzle international guests. As Esmie struggles with her true feelings for Tom and the daily dangers of her work, Lydia realises the Raj is not the centre of high society she had dreamed of. And when crisis strikes both couples, Esmie faces a shattering choice: should she stay the constant friend she’s always been, or risk everything and follow her heart?
The Great War is over but life in Whitton Grange mining village is hard and dangerous. Louie Kirkup fears becoming a spinster drudge until she sets eyes on 'Red' Sam Ritson: hard, muscled and a natural leader. But the General Strike looms and Louie fears for the fate of her village and unborn child, as the strain takes its tragic toll.
Lush, green, fragrant: the Indian hills of Assam are full of promise. But eighteen-year-old Clarissa Belhaven is full of worry. The family tea plantation is suffering, and so is her father, still grieving over the untimely death of his wife, while Clarissa's fragile sister, Olive, needs love and resourceful care. Beautiful and headstrong, Clarissa soon attracts the attention of young, brash Wesley Robson, a rival tea planter. Yet before his intentions become fully clear, tragedy befalls the Belhavens and the sisters are wrenched from their beloved tea garden to the industrial streets of Tyneside. A world away from the only home she has ever known, Clarissa must start again. Using all her means, she must endure not only poverty but jealousy and betrayal too. Will the reappearance of Wesley give her the link to her old life that she so desperately craves? Or will a fast-changing world and the advent of war extinguish hope forever? Revised edition: This edition of The Tea Planter's Daughter includes editorial revisions.
When pretty Sara Pallister's father dies she is taken in by a bullying uncle in Whitton Grange pit-town. Here she is irresistibly drawn to motorbike-riding Joe Dimarco, wild son of the extrovert Italians who run the ice-cream parlour. But as war comes and hostility to the Italians erupts into violence, Sara and Jo's passionate love seems doomed.
Im zweiten Band ihrer farbenprächtigen Saga »Neubeginn in Indien« erzählt Bestsellerautorin Janet MacLeod Trotter über die Umwege der Liebe. Ich kannte dich mein Leben lang und war doch immer auf der Suche nach dir. Stella und Andrew sind gemeinsam im Raj Hotel in Punjab groß geworden. Als ein Skandal Andrews Leben auf den Kopf stellt, wird er mit Stella als Begleitung zu seiner Mutter nach Schottland geschickt. Auf dem Schiff verliebt sich Stella Hals über Kopf in den attraktiven Hugh, doch dieser spielt nur mit ihren Träumen. Allein kehrt Stella in ihre Heimat zurück und stürzt sich nach dem Ausbruch des Zweiten Weltkriegs in die Arbeit für das Freiwilligencorps der Frauen. Andrew, mittlerweile in Schottland verlobt, schließt sich der britischen Armee an. Als er auf der Durchreise während des Kriegs in Indien Station macht, begegnen sich Stella und Andrew nach langer Zeit. Doch die bitteren Erfahrungen ihrer Vergangenheit haben sie verändert. Können sie das wiederfinden, was sie einst verband?
In diesem ergreifenden Finale der Familiensaga von Janet MacLeod Trotter kämpft Libby 1947 in Assam mit den Veränderungen ihrer Heimat und ihrer Liebe zu Ghulam, während sie alte Familiengeheimnisse entdeckt. Gleichzeitig sucht ihre Cousine Adela nach dem Jungen, den sie einst zur Adoption freigab, und riskiert alles.
In "Die Frauen der Teeplantage" von Janet MacLeod Trotter kämpft die Anglo-Inderin Adela 1933 in Indien um ihre Träume und Liebe. Nach einem enttäuschenden Debüt flieht sie nach England, wo sie ein neues Leben beginnt. Doch der Zweite Weltkrieg bedroht ihre Sehnsucht nach Assam und ihre Hoffnung auf Rückkehr.
Das emotionale Finale der Indien-Saga von Janet MacLeod Trotter spielt 1945. Jeanie kehrt voller Hoffnung zu ihrem Mann Mungo zurück, fühlt sich jedoch eingeengt und sucht Freiheit im Haus der Lomax’. Bei einer Hochzeit trifft sie den Lebemann Rick wieder und muss sich zwischen Pflichtgefühl und aufkeimenden Gefühlen entscheiden.
Der erste Band der Indien-Saga von Janet MacLeod Trotter erzählt die bewegende Geschichte zweier Frauen, Esmie und Lydia, die in Schottland 1919 leben. Während Esmie im Missionskrankenhaus in Indien mit sozialen Herausforderungen kämpft, genießt Lydia das Leben im kolonialen Glanz. Eine Krise zwingt Esmie, zwischen Treue und Liebe zu wählen.
Im zweiten Band der Familiensaga von Janet MacLeod Trotter geht es um Sophie, die nach dem Tod ihrer Eltern in Schottland aufwächst. Ihre Sehnsucht nach Indien erwacht, als sie Tam trifft. Während sie sich an ihr neues Leben anpasst, versucht ihre Freundin Tilly, Licht in Sophies Vergangenheit zu bringen.
Der bewegende Roman von Janet MacLeod Trotter erzählt die Geschichte von Alice Fairchild, die 1818 in England geboren wird und in einem Leuchtturm aufwächst. Nach einer schicksalhaften Begegnung mit dem Soldaten John Sinclair führt sie ihr Weg nach Indien, wo sie zwischen politischen Unruhen und ihren Gefühlen hin- und hergerissen ist.
