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The winter rose : a novel / Jennifer Donnelly.

by Donnelly, Jennifer.

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Hyperion, c2008.

Women physicians -- Fiction.

Docklands (London, England) -- Fiction.

Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1910-1936 -- Fiction.

Donnelly, Jennifer. Tea rose trilogy ; bk. 2.

9781401307462 (trade pbk.)

707 p. ; 24 cm.

Sequel to: "The tea rose".

Series information from the author's website.

"First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Pub. 2006"--T.p. verso

"Set in London and Africa in the early days of the twentieth century, 'The Winter Rose' introduces some remarkable new characters. India Selwyn–Jones is one of the rare new breed: a lady doctor. Her family, her eligible, ambitious fiancé, the male medical establishment all object but she insists on defying convention and finds a post in London's East End. There she meets a gangland boss called Sid Malone. Criminal he may be but he also has a hidden charm, and a devastatingly attractive personality, and when India is called to treat him after a dockside brawl, their friendship becomes more intense. But Sid Malone is not his real name: and he has a past and enemies by the score, including India's determined and ruthless fiancé whose intention is to marry into the family money as well as becoming a leading political figure. The stormy, noisy, brawling docklands are a natural home to the political fight as the fledgling Labour Party gets underway, and the struggle for the women's vote becomes more strident. But the East End is also a place for those who have a past to hide, a new beginning to find. And so the complicated strands of betrayal and pretence, of ambition and family, are woven again into a new drama, in a new country."--harpercollins.com.au

Historical fiction.

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