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Donnelly, Jennifer, 1963-

The tea rose / Jennifer Donnelly. - London : HarperCollins, 2003. - 1 volume ; 24 cm - Rose 1 .

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, a bright and defiant young woman dares to dream of a life beyond tumbledown wharves, gaslit alleys, and the grim and crumbling dwellings of the poor.

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 dreams are shattered when the actions of a dark and brutal man take from her nearly everything-and everyone-she holds dear. Fearing her own death at the dark man's hands, she is forced to flee London for New York. There, her indomitable spirit-and the ghosts of her past-propel her rise from a modest west side shopfront to the top of Manhattan's tea trade.

Fiona's old ghosts do not rest quietly, however, 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.

The Tea Rose is a towering old-fashioned story, imbued with a modern sensibility, of a family's destruction, of murder and revenge, of love lost and won again, and of one determined woman's quest to survive and triumph.

ISBN: 0007161174 9780007161171 0007161166 9780007161164

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA3Y8908 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 009042650 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Murder victims' families--England--London--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
London (England) --Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Historical fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: 813.6