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The Tea Rose

Jennifer Donnelly

Ages 14–18

Readers rate it 4.1 (29 on Hardcover)

800 pages · Released May 2, 2006

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High confidence

LGBTQ+ themes

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Educational value

A note for parents

The Tea Rose is a mature historical romance with significant violence, dark themes, and adult content that makes it better suited for older teens than younger readers. The story opens with a brutal crime and explores revenge, trauma, and loss in Victorian London and Gilded Age New York. While Fiona's resilience and entrepreneurial success offer positive role modeling, the heavy subject matter and occasional sexual references require reader maturity.

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From the publisher

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, h... 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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  • Fiction
  • Death
  • Fathers
  • Revenge
  • Tea trade
  • Murder victims' families
  • Businesswomen
  • Tea industry
  • Businesspeople
  • Historical fiction
  • Love stories
  • London (england), fiction

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ISBN 9780007208005 · HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

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