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Critical Praise

"The novel's lively plotting, big cast of warmly drawn characters and long-deferred romantic denouement make this a ripping yarn."

——Publishers Weekly

"It's so much fun ...this is London in the 1880s, the London of Charles Dickens and Edward Rutherfurd, a teeming, messy place full of business, dirt and poverty. Once in New York, we trip from the tenements of the Lower East Side to elegant dining at Delmonico's, with hardly a paragraph to catch our breath... the atmosphere of both starring cities is created in satisfying detail. One can walk the streets and listen to the people chat in the company of Jennifer Donnelly, who has done her historical homework... she delivers."

——Washington Post

"When you start reading Jennifer Donnelly's The Tea Rose give yourself plenty of time because this is a most seductive novel. You will travel from the rough, often savage, back streets of London to the glossy sophistication of New York's Fifth Avenue. You'll be charmed by the novel's heroine, Fiona Finnegan --- her intelligence, her courage, her great heart. Despite her suffering --- a lost love, a tragic family-there are moments you will want to cheer. It's the kind of novel where the writing is so fluid you feel the author simply loves telling her story. This is a splendid heartwarming novel of pain, struggle, decency, triumph --- and just what we need in these times."

——Frank McCourt

"I loved this vividly atmospheric and wonderfully rambunctious yarn --- brilliantly told, great fun to read."

——Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman