Tea-Planter's Daughter

Today is Julia Clockhouse''s twenty-fifth birthday. Her long-suffering Hindu servants are frantically trying to organise a party for her, but it''s hard to do so amid the havoc wreaked by her wild spirit. They think she is possessed. Daughters of colonial tea-planters shouldn''t have souls that escape their bodies, move objects with their minds, hear tongueless yogis speak. Julia Clockhouse does.

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