The Tea Rose, Jennifer Donnelly
The Tea Rose, Jennifer Donnelly
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The Tea Rose

Author: Jennifer Donnelly

Narrator: Jill Tanner

Unabridged: 28 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/07/2014


Synopsis

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.

About Jennifer Donnelly

Jennifer Donnelly is an award-winning author of both adult and young adult books. 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. She lives in New York's Hudson Valley.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Wendy Darling on May 26, 2011

3.5 stars. This book is not at all what I expected! I thought it was historical fiction, but there's too much crazy melodrama for it to be that. Then I thought it was a historical romance, but it's far too detailed and well done for that, too. So the book is either extremely campy historical fiction......more

Goodreads review by Tina on February 19, 2021

This book was once recommended to me by an old Goodreads friend when I first started on this site. I never got around to reading it and to my surprise it "magically" appeared as a free monthly download on Audible. Was I ever excited! This was a brilliant epic family saga! 5 GLOWING stars!! It has eve......more

Goodreads review by Allison on February 26, 2017

The Tea Rose was a really good book, and I'm so glad I persevered past the absolutely devastating first 200-300-odd pages. It's one of those books that starts off with everything going so well that you know it's not going to last long. I had a sense of foreboding, but the amount of tragedy and pain......more

4.5 very strong stars! As I listened to the audiobook on Overdrive of The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly, I knew I had to make a conscious commitment to this book when I learned that it ran for twenty eight hours and thirty-one minutes. As I started listening, I was immediately drawn into this grippi......more

Goodreads review by LENA on January 02, 2021

The Tea Rose Jennifer Donnelly “We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.” “God didn't have to punish him; he'd created his own hell. By himself and for himself.” I don’t really know why I took so long to pick this book up. I guess I felt intimidated by its size. Also, having devour......more