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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