But Fiona's old ghosts do not rest quietly, and to silence them, she must venture back to the London of her childhood, where a deadly confrontation with her past becomes the key to her future. Her family and dreams shattered by her father's untimely death at the hands of a ruthless tea baron, Fiona Finnegan flees East London and eventually establishes herself at the head of the tea trade in New York. There, her indomitable spirit propels her rise from a modest West Side shop-front to the top of Manhattan's tea trade. Includes a conversation with the Jennifer Donnelly, 'My Inspiration,' an original essay by the author, and reading group questions. Fearing her own death, she is forced to flee London for New York.
With nothing but their faith in each other to spur them on, Fiona and Joe struggle, save, and sacrifice to achieve their dreams.īut Fiona's life is shattered when the actions of a dark and brutal man take from her nearly everything-and everyone-she holds dear. 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. Fiona Finnegan is the spirited, ambitious daughter of an Irish dock worker. 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.
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