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Indochiny Francuskie, 1952 rok18-letnia Nicole, pół Francuzka, pół Wietnamka, zawsze żyła w cieniu starszej siostry, Sylvie. Gdy ich ojciec, handlarz jedwabiem, rozpoczyna pracę u gubernatora, przekazuje firmę starszej córce. Rozczarowana Nicole dostaje tylko niewielki sklepik z jedwabiem w biednej wietnamskiej dzielnicy Hanoi. Skłócona z...

Cejlon, lata dwudzieste i trzydzieste XX wieku. Dziewiętnastoletnia Gwen Hooper przypływa na Cejlon, by zamieszkać z mężem na plantacji herbaty, którą jego rodzina prowadzi od pokoleń. Jest zakochana i zachwycona nowym życiem na egzotycznej wyspie. Jednak Laurence, małomówny i zapracowany, nie poświęca żonie wiele czasu. Podczas samotnych dni w...

Belle Hatton has embarked upon an exciting new life far from home: a glamorous job as a nightclub singer in 1930s Burma, with a host of sophisticated new friends and admirers. But Belle is haunted by a mystery from the past - a 25 year old newspaper clipping found in her parents' belongings after their death, saying that the Hattons were leaving...

Ceylon, 1935. Louisa Reeve, the daughter of a successful British gem trader, and her husband Elliot, a charming, thrill-seeking businessman, seem like the couple who have it all. Except what they long for more than anything: a child....

1952, French Indochina. Since her mother's death, eighteen-year-old half-French, half-Vietnamese Nicole has been living in the shadow of her beautiful older sister, Sylvie. When Sylvie is handed control of the family silk business, Nicole is given an abandoned silk shop in the Vietnamese quarter of Hanoi. But the area is teeming with militant...

Nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper is newly married to a rich and charming widower, eager to join him on his tea plantation, determined to be the perfect wife and mother. But life in Ceylon is not what Gwen expected. The plantation workers are resentful, the neighbours treacherous. And there are clues to the past that her husband refuses to...