How long does it take to read The Tea Rose?
The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly takes about 13 hours 52 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of The Tea Rose
Next: The Winter Rose
About 13 hours 52 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2002. 756 pages, about 207,900 words.
28 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 23 hours 6 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 52 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 22 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
East London, 1888 - a city apart. 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. 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. With nothing but their faith in each other to spur them on, Fiona and Joe struggle, save, and sacrifice to achieve their dreams. But Fiona's life is shattered when the actions of a dark and brutal man take from her nearly everything-and everyone-she holds dear. Fearing her own death, she is forced to flee London for New York. There, her indomitable spirit propels her rise from a modest West Side shop-front to the top of Manhattan's tea trade. 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.
Subjects: Fiction, Death, Fathers, Revenge, Tea trade, Murder victims' families
