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Those feelings are exacerbated by remarks she elicits from Bella about her father and her governess, especially after an accident that might not have been as accidental as it appears… Bella is happy enough in her imaginative world with her dolls Li Po and Po Chu-i (named after two Chinese poets her mother reads to her in translation), but book-loving Virginia can’t help feeling vaguely threatened by the more intellectual Miss White. 1938: not quite nine-year-old Bella Ferguson lives on a remote tea plantation in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) with her parents Henry and Virginia and her governess, Miss White.

Head in the Clouds by Ivan Southall