The Tea Rose
Fionna Finnegan, the spirited, ambitious daughter of an Irish dock worker, longs to break free from the squalid alleys of Whitechapel. But her dreams fall apart with the sudden death of her father and the disappearance of her childhood love. Fiona flees to New York where she builts a small...
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Fionna Finnegan, the spirited, ambitious daughter of an Irish dock worker, longs to break free from the squalid alleys of Whitechapel. But her dreams fall apart with the sudden death of her father and the disappearance of her childhood love.
Fiona flees to New York where she builts a small grocery shop into a thriving tea house. But she cannot forget London. Convinced that her father was murdered, Fiona returns to the streets of her childhood to attempt to bring his killers to justice - and restore famiy's good name.
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Format: papier
ISBN:
0007155565
Publish date: 2002 (data przybliżona)
Publisher: HarperColins
Pages no: 782
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Adult,
Mystery,
Historical Romance,
19th Century,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit
Series: The Tea Rose (#1)
Book: The Tea Rose Author: Jennifer Donnelly Genre: Fiction/19th Century/Romance Summary: 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...
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...
From the lowliest of London's slums; from New York's poor Irish to its richest of rich; and back to London's streets but walking on the richer side of town this time. Fiona and Joe have to fight for everything they get and more, time and time again. They win some and they lose some, but what they ne...
Ich mache mir sonst zu jeden Buch das ich lese Notizen wie „flüssiger Schreibstil“ „gefühlvolle Formulierungen“ „fesselnd“ etc... bei diesem Buch bin ich dazu gar nicht gekommen. Ich habe keine Worte gefunden um es zu beschreiben! Der Schreibstil ist nicht flüssig sondern perfekt, die Formulierungen...
A very readable historical romance that spans several years and some people with ambition. Both Joe and Fiona are interested in being successful and plan to open their own shop with savings but a series of pitfalls has her in New York and him in London. Through adventure and hardship they prevai...
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