Fearing her own death at the dark man's hands, she is forced to flee London for New York. 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. With nothing but their faith in each other to spur them on, Fiona and Joe struggle, save, and sacrifice to achieve their dreams. 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. 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. A decade later, armed with tremendous wealth, Fiona returns to London to reclaim her lost love and exact a breathtaking revenge." New book was damaged in transit from Greece.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.East London, 1888-a city apart.
There, the ghosts of her past propel her to the very top of the city's tea trade.
Crushing poverty, the loss of her lifelong love, and the destruction of her family quickly follow.When Fiona discovers that her father's death was no accident, but a murder engineered by a ruthless tea baron bent on destroying the union, she flees to New York to save her own life. But her dreams are shattered when her father - a dockworker and union organizer - is killed in an accident. book bit cover toen n arrivel "Set in East London, 1888- ' The Tea Rose' is a tale of a love lost and won, of a family's destruction, of murder and revenge - and one young woman's quest to escape the poverty of her childhood and make her fortune in the tea trade.This epic follows young Fiona Finnegan's climb from the teeming streets of East London, a place she hopes to leave behind.
Translation: Yiannis Spandonis (illustrator).
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