This was a book that wasn’t sure what it wanted to be. It could have been a good historical fiction novel set in Ceylon in the early 1900’s. It could have been a book about the income disparity and class divisions in that area. It could have been a story of love and the dangers of keeping secrets. It tried to be all of these and didn’t succeed. I quite liked the writing style of the author, but the character development was weak. The main character, Gwendolyn, is a whiny, privileged young woman and doesn’t progress much through the book.
