Background
Dinah Jefferies was born in Malaysia in 1948 and moved to England in 1956 at age nine after the country became independent.
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She studied at the Birmingham College of Art and later at the University of Ulster, where she graduated in English Literature.
Career
Jefferies did not remain with Jamie"s father and later went on to marry Jon Owen, with whom she had one daughter, and the family moved into a musicians" commune. After separating with Owen she began teaching at Dartington Hall School. She later met Richard Jefferies and the two married in 1998.
Her 2015 novel, The Tea Planter"s Wife, was a choice for the Richard and Judy Bookclub. and was in the Sunday Times best sellers list for 16 weeks continuously from September until Christmas 2015, topping it twice during that time.
