Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
The Winter Rose
The Winter Rose | Jennifer Donnelly
16 posts | 30 read | 13 to read
When India Selwyn Jones graduates from medical school and sets off for her first job in a Whitechapel clinic, she is full of ideas on how to educate London's poorest inhabitants to the dangers of malnutrition and poor hygiene, saving them from their own ignorance. When the rough and dashing Sid Malone head of 'The Firm' and London's biggest criminal becomes one of her patients, he begins to open her eyes to the realities of life in the East End, and how her simple ideas hold no water against the kind of grinding poverty that her clients face. India is torn in two, for she is engaged to the handsome, ambitious MP Freddy Lytton, and now the criminal Sid Malone has stolen her heart. But Freddy is very possessive when it comes to what he considers his, and will go to any length to keep India. Sid Malone, however, is not all that he seems, for he has a hidden past, and a family that desperately wants him back. His sister Fiona Bristow, a successful business woman and happily married to her childhood sweetheart Joe, hires a private detective in a bid to win her brother back, and to get him away from a life of crime. But as she gets nearer to his world, the ugliness of it breaks into her own, dragging her family and her marriage into dreadful danger. Just when it looks as though Sid might have a way out, and a chance at happiness with India, things go terribly, terribly wrong. The Winter Rose, second instalment of Jennifer Donnelly's acclaimed romance trilogy, is full of love, lust, and longing.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
Pick icon
100%
review
PaperbackPirate
The Winter Rose | Jennifer Donnelly
post image
Pickpick

This book continues a tale of girl power told through historical fiction. It took me about 3 weeks to read it, but it was never a slog. The adventure and drama were well-paced & kept me entertained to the end. I would have been sad to see it end except that it‘s 2nd in a trilogy!
🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

Sharpeipup Loved that trilogy! 4y
PaperbackPirate @Sharpeipup I‘m such a fan girl right now! Is the third one as long as the others? 4y
Sharpeipup Yes, it is about the same length. 4y
35 likes1 stack add4 comments
blurb
PaperbackPirate
The Winter Rose | Jennifer Donnelly
post image

Hooray! Last night I made it to Part Two! I love the continuation of this story and just wish I had more time to get lost in it. Now I have 375/707 to go!

blurb
PaperbackPirate
The Winter Rose | Jennifer Donnelly
post image

📚 Well this pile is pretty much impossible with all the job/adult responsibilities/social justice/Litsy/reality television filling my life but let‘s see what happens.
🌹This month I hope to finish The Winter Rose
👑 read A Game of Thrones for the #monthlykeywordgxo challenge
🧙‍♀️ read Dark Witch for #BookSpin
🔥 read Little Fires Everywhere for the #whatsinaname2020 challenge
👥 and finally read All the Lives We Never Lived for my book club.
😅

BookishMe BEAUTIFUL ❣️📚💟 4y
PaperbackPirate Thank you @BookishMe ! 💙 4y
36 likes2 comments
blurb
PaperbackPirate
The Winter Rose | Jennifer Donnelly
post image

I‘m happy with my weekend total. This challenge helped me squeeze in some extra pages here and there and it added up! Luckily this book lends itself to being read in bits, although it‘s so good I wish I had more time to read.
📸 Taken at Wupatki National Monument
#24B4Monday

blurb
PaperbackPirate
The Winter Rose | Jennifer Donnelly
post image

I am out-of-town with out-of-town family this weekend. We got to visit the beautiful Wupatki National Monument today but I did not get much time to read. It doesn‘t matter - it still helped me squeeze in a few extra minutes.
P.S. Don‘t worry. I‘m a good citizen. This is one of the Pueblo ruins you‘re allowed to walk through & touch. I think this one had a great built-in bookcase. #24B4Monday

Andrew65 👏👏👏 4y
38 likes1 comment
blurb
PaperbackPirate
The Winter Rose | Jennifer Donnelly
post image

I started today with the tagged book but with family here from out of state I don‘t think I‘ll get much done. It‘s a great motivator anyway!
#24b4monday

Andrew65 Good luck with whatever reading you fit in. 4y
30 likes1 comment
blurb
PaperbackPirate
The Winter Rose | Jennifer Donnelly
post image

I‘m about to start this 707 page book. I loved The Tea Rose but the size has me a little worried. Hopefully I will finish before I need to read my book club‘s selection.
Any fans? 🌹

melissajayne I found it went fairly quick, despite its length. 4y
PaperbackPirate @melissajayne I felt that way about the first one, so it‘s good to hear that doesn‘t change! 4y
32 likes1 stack add2 comments
blurb
Kimberlone
The Winter Rose | Jennifer Donnelly
post image

And these are the books I got at the book sale. Only $7 and all were like new. Although I did have to spend $20 to join the Friends of the Library.

36 likes1 stack add
blurb
DivineDiana
The Winter Rose | Jennifer Donnelly
post image

One of my IRL Book Clubs read the first book in this series. When I saw this at a Library Book Sale, I decided to continue the story! #tbr #winterwonderland #awinterstale

Aleida Those are fun 5y
Cinfhen Nice 5y
wen4blu One of my favorite books... 5y
DivineDiana @wen4blu Did you continue the trilogy? 5y
89 likes4 comments
blurb
DivineDiana
The Winter Rose | Jennifer Donnelly
post image

Here are a few of my #bigbooks. Unfortunately, I have not experienced the joy of reading them ... yet! 😉. #31bookpics

RebelReader I read Shantaram last summer and loved it! ❤️ 5y
DivineDiana @RebelReader A good friend passed it on to me because she loved it too! 5y
wen4blu I haven't read this one, but Jennifer Donnelly wrote one of my favorite books 5y
DivineDiana @wen4blu I read that one with my Book Club. That‘s why I bought this sequel. I just hope that by the time I read it, I remember everything that came before! 😉🤔😀 5y
77 likes4 comments
blurb
DivineDiana
The Winter Rose | Jennifer Donnelly
post image

🌹Two from my TBR piles that incorporate the beautiful rose. #kissfromarose #lyricalapril

Cinfhen All these Rose covers are making me very happy 😊 7y
Reviewsbylola I love the Donnelly series 7y
DivineDiana @Reviewsbylola My Book Club read the first. I bought this to continue. Had planned on reading in the winter. Guess I have to wait for next year now! 😉 7y
bedandabook Read Life After Life soon! An astonishingly good read once you get used to the concept. 7y
DivineDiana @bedandabook Will do! 😀 7y
74 likes5 comments
blurb
SamLBooks
The Winter Rose | Jennifer Donnelly
post image

5/52 Reading challenge. Soooo good the ending had me on the edge of my seat!

1 like1 stack add
blurb
MKbookworm
The Winter Rose | Jennifer Donnelly
post image

I loved this series by Jennifer Donnelly. Such wonderful characters who you instantly fall for and stories so engrossing you stay up all night to see how everything ends. #headlesscovers #photoadaynov16 #jenniferdonnelly

18 likes1 stack add2 comments
blurb
DivineDiana
The Winter Rose | Jennifer Donnelly
post image

One of my Book Clubs read The Tea Rose which is the first book in a trilogy. I found the second book of the series at a library sale, but it is still on my TBR pile. #headlesscovers

AThousandLives87 This is in my TBR stack. Let me know how it goes! 7y
DivineDiana @Bi-Polar_Reader Will do! 7y
36 likes2 comments
quote
Candidceillie
The Winter Rose | Jennifer Donnelly
post image

It was happiness, not life, that was too short, and when it visited - in the form of a fine evening spent talking with a friend - he honored it.

2 likes1 stack add