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The Tea Rose: A Novel
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780312993566
ISBN: 0312993560
Label: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 768
Publication Date: March 13, 2004
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Release Date: March 02, 2004
Studio: St. Martin's Paperbacks
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Editorial Review:
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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Rating:  - Will be reading more of Donnelly!!!!
"The Tea Rose"
By Jennifer Donnelly
This heartwarming tale begins working-class London where our main character Fiona lives and works. Born into a hard working Irish family, Fiona works long hard hours packing tea at Burton Tea, a major company that her father also works for as a dock worker. The Finnegans are hard working honest folk who are just trying to scrape by in life, but Fiona and her beau Joe dream of bigger and better things for themselves. Determined to open ... Read More
Rating: - Tea Rose
Great book!!!
I will read this book over and over again.
You will never see the twist and turns coming.
Jennifer Donnely writes so well it is an amazing read.
Rating: - A undiscovered treasure
I am an avid reader of so many genres. I happened to see this book and decided to give it a try. I cannot put it down! It is truely great. You fall in love with all the characters. Donnelly is wonderful with the way she lets us get to know each character. I also feel like I am in London, or in New York in the late 1800's. You cheer for Fiona from the first page to the last. I read that Donnelly took ten years to write this book and it is her first. But many readers of her did not start on ... Read More
Rating:  - Good novel
I enjoyed this book very much. It was a light read with a nice ending.
Rating: - the tea rose
"The Tea Rose" is a novel I would recommend for lovers of historical fiction, the Victorian period, or a good romance. Though this book is lengthy, I breezed right through it. The plot moves very quickly, & I was entertained the entire time. The only real downfall of the novel is that some of the plot lines feel contrived & are too unrealistic. Oftentimes, I could guess the direction of the story because it was so cliche. The author obviously sets up what is coming next, so there are no real ... Read More
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