![]() ![]() After years of hard work, she establishes herself as the head of her own powerful tea empire. Slowly she builds his small grocery shop into a thriving tea house, and her new life flourishes. Devastated, her life in tatters, Fiona flees to New York where she sets up home with her alcoholic uncle. But one by one her dreams fall apart as her father is killed in a dock accident, Joe is seduced by another woman, and her mother is viciously murdered – a suspected victim of Jack the Ripper. ![]() With the love of her life, Joe Bristow, she dreams of escaping the poverty and opening her own tea shop. She longs to break free from the squalid lanes and alleys of Whitechapel, where she has a job in a tea factory. Fiona Finnegan is the spirited, ambitious daughter of an Irish dock worker. Set in Whitechapel in 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. ![]()
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