Jennifer Donnelly

Josephine Montfort is from one of New York's oldest, most respected, and wealthiest families. Like most well-off girls of the Gilded Age, her future looks set - after a finishing school education, she will be favourably married off to a handsome gentleman, after which she'll want for nothing. But Jo has other dreams and desires that make her long for...

The Wild Rose by Jennifer Donnelly transports readers to the vibrant yet turbulent world of early 20th-century London, as the shadow of World War I draws near. Against a backdrop of societal upheaval, where women are fervently demanding their voting rights and adventurers are challenging the wild terrains of the globe, the tale of the Finnegan family continues to unfold...

The Tea Rose is a towering old-fashioned story, imbued with a modern sensibility, of a family's destruction, of murder and revenge, of love lost and won again, and of one determined woman's quest to survive and triumph. East London, 1888—a city apart. A place of shadow and light where thieves, whores, and dreamers mingle, where children play in the cobbled...

Beautiful Sophie, with lips as red as blood, skin as pale as snow, and hair as dark as night, is about to come of age and inherit her father's throne. But Sophie's stepmother wants rid of her—beautiful she may be, but too weak and foolish to reign. And Sophie believes her, as she believes all the things that have been...

In an ancient city by the sea, three sisters - a maiden, a mother, and a crone - are drawing maps by candlelight. Sombre, with piercing grey eyes, they are the three Fates, and every map is a human life... Stepsister takes up where Cinderella's tale ends. We meet Isabelle, the younger of Cinderella's two stepsisters. Ella is considered beautiful;...

Is Arabella seen as having too much ambition? And is she too proud? Does this make a girl seem beastly? When Arabella’s parents ask that she be sweet and compliant so that she can marry well, she can’t extinguish the fire that burns within her. And when a mysterious figure one day punishes Arabella with a curse, she and everyone...

Six mermaids battle to save their hidden world.Leaders of a resistance to the barbaric new regime, Serafina and Neela, are working hard to destabilise Vallerio, the new ruler of Cerulea. Becca, Ava and Ling are still hunting for their ancestors' talismans; the keys to keeping an ancient evil locked in its icy prison. Astrid finally returns home to Ondalina to...

When Serafina, a mermaid of the Mediterranean Sea, awakens on the morning of her betrothal, her biggest worry should be about reuniting with handsome Prince Mahdi, her childhood crush. Instead she finds herself haunted by strange dreams foretelling the return of an ancient evil, and dealing with the deaths of her parents as assassins storm the betrothal ceremony, plunging the...

When Mattie is given the letters by a guest at the hotel in which she has a summer job, she thinks that the giver is simply upset. But the next day, when the woman is found drowned in Big Moose Lake, Mattie has to decide if she will read the letters, or burn them as the woman requested. But Mattie...

Six mermaids battle to save their hidden world.Serafina, Neela and four others have successfully escaped Captain Traho and his men after their hideout with the river witches was stormed. They must stop an ancient evil from escaping its icy prison by finding six talismans hidden by Serafina's ancestor hundreds of years before. With all the Mer nations looking for them...

The Winter Rose by Jennifer Donnelly is a compelling continuation of the sweeping saga that began with The Tea Rose. Set against the backdrop of early 1900s London, this richly layered novel delves into a world where the opulence of the aristocracy starkly contrasts with the grimness of the East End's impoverished streets. At the heart of the story is...

Smart, bookish Belle, a captive in the Beast's castle, has become accustomed to her new home and has befriended its inhabitants. When she comes upon Nevermore, an enchanted book unlike anything else she has seen in the castle, Belle finds herself pulled into its pages and transported to a world of glamour and intrigue. The adventures Belle has always imagined,...