Jennifer Donnelly





Jennifer Donnelly

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Jennifer Donnelly is the author of four novels: Revolution, A Northern Light, The Tea Rose, The Winter Rose, and Humble Pie, a picture book for children. She grew up in New York State, in Lewis and Westchester counties, and attended the University of Rochester.

Jennifer’s first novel, The Tea Rose, an epic historical novel set in London and New York in the late 19th century, was called “exquisite” by Booklist, “so much fun” by the Washington Post, a “guilty pleasure” by People and was named a Top Pick by the Romantic Times.

Her second novel, A Northern Light, set in the Adirondack of 1906, against the backdrop of an infamous murder, won the Carnegie Medal, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Borders Original Voices Award, and was named a...more


Average rating: 3.99 · 31,711 ratings · 5,538 reviews · 10 distinct works
A Northern Light
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 12,819 ratings — published 2003 — 30 editions
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Revolution
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 8,096 ratings — published 2010 — 17 editions
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The Tea Rose (The Tea Rose,...
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 5,914 ratings — published 2002 — 24 editions
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The Winter Rose (The Tea Ro...
4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 3,511 ratings — published 2006 — 16 editions
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The Wild Rose (The Tea Rose...
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 1,272 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions
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3.27 of 5 stars 3.27 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions
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Rip Van Winkle & Other Stories
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“Right now I want a word that describes the feeling that you get--a cold sick feeling, deep down inside--when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it to, but you can't stop it. And you know, for the first time, for the very first time, that there will now be a before and an after, a was and a will be. And that you will never again quite be the same person you were.”
Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light

“Life’s all about the revolution, isn’t it? The one inside, I mean. You can’t change history. You can’t change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.”
Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

“I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.”
Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light

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