
The Tea Rose
by Jennifer Donnelly
Taste attributes: historicaldramamysterycrimefresh & originalheavylinearemotive & stirringhuman spirit/resilience/survivalinjustice/tragedy/vengeancerags to riches
Boxlist takeEmotional and weighty: a historical novel that is balanced on everything else. Best if you like depth over escapism.
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Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: heavy · Realism: balanced · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: very stirringHow we score
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3.3 / 5
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About This Book
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.
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- Author
- Jennifer Donnelly
- Published
- 2002
- Pages
- 756
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- Open Library
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