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by Jennifer Donnelly (Author)
The Tea Rose is a towering, old-fashioned story imbued with a modern sensibility--a sweeping epic of a family's destruction, murder and revenge, love lost and won again, and one determined woman's quest to survive and triumph.
East London, 1888--a city apart. It is a place of shadow and light where thieves, dreamers, and working folk mingle, where children play in cobbled streets by day and a killer stalks at night. Here, by the whispering waters of the Thames, Fiona Finnegan, a worker in a tea factory, dares to dream of a life beyond tumbledown wharves and gaslit alleys. She hopes to open a shop of her own alongside her lifelong love, Joe Bristow, a costermonger's son. With nothing but faith in each other, Fiona and Joe struggle, save, and sacrifice to achieve their future.
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Following in the footsteps of such beloved epics as "A Woman of Substance," "The Thornbirds," and "The Shell Seekers" comes this towering story of murder and revenge, of love lost and won again, and of one determined woman's quest to survive and triumph...
The Tea Rose
East London, 1888-a city apart. A place of shadow and light where thieves, whores, and dreamers mingle, where children play in the cobbled streets by day and a killer stalks at night, where bright hopes meet the darkest truths. Here, by the whispering waters of the Thames, Fiona Finnegan, a worker in a tea factory, hopes to own a shop one day, together with her lifelong love, Joe Bristow, a costermonger's son. With nothing but their faith in each other to spur them on, Fiona and Joe struggle, save, and sacrifice to achieve their dreams.
But Fiona's life is shattered when the actions of a dark and brutal man take from her nearly everything-and everyone-she holds dear. Fearing her own death, she is forced to flee London for New York. There, her indomitable spirit propels her rise from a modest West Side shop-front to the top of Manhattan's tea trade. But Fiona's old ghosts do not rest quietly, and to silence them, she must venture back to the London of her childhood, where a deadly confrontation with her past becomes the key to her future.
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"Full of warmth and rich period detail, "The Tea Rose" begs for a comfy, overstuffed chair and plenty of time to keep turning those pages." "-Dallas Morning News"
"Steeped in melodrama, revenge, and a maddeningly star-crossed romance...a fine yarn." -"People"
Author Biography
Jennifer Donnelly writes books for children and adults, including the novel The Tea Rose. She lives in Brooklyn and upstate New York, with her husband and two greyhounds. She has a passion for tea and roses.
