The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly

The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly

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.

But Fiona's world is shattered when the actions of a dark and brutal man take nearly everything--and everyone--she holds dear. Fearing for her own life, she is forced to flee London for New York. There, her indomitable spirit propels her rise from a modest West Side shopfront to the top of Manhattan's tea trade. Yet her old ghosts do not rest quietly. To silence them, Fiona must return to the London of her youth, where a deadly confrontation with her past holds the key to her future.

Authentic and deeply moving, Jennifer Donnelly's The Tea Rose is an unforgettable historical novel.

Jennifer Donnelly is an award-winning author of both adult and young adult books, including Deep Blue, the first book in the Waterfire Saga. For adults she has written a trilogy of best-selling books that includes The Tea Rose, The Winter Rose, and The Wild Rose. Her first young adult novel, A Northern Light, received many accolades, among them the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Carnegie Medal in the UK, and a Michael L. Printz Honor. Her second young adult novel, Revolution, was named a Best Book of 2010 by Kirkus Reviews and School Library Journal, and the audiobook received a 2011 American Library Association Odyssey Honor. She lives in New York's Hudson Valley. For more information, visit www.jenniferdonnelly.com.

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ISBN 13	9780312378028
ISBN 10	0312378025
Title	The Tea Rose
Author	Jennifer Donnelly
Series	Tea Rose
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	St Martin's Press
Year published	2007-12-10
Number of pages	592
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.