Nine-year-old Alice Hart grows up in an isolated, idyllic home between sugar cane fields and the sea, where her mother's enchanting flowers and their hidden messages shelter her from the dark moods of her father. When tragedy irrevocably changes her life, Alice goes to live with the grandmother she never knew existed, on an Australian native flower farm that gives refuge to women who, like Alice, are lost or broken. In the Victorian tradition, every flower has a meaning and, as she settles into her new life, Alice uses this language of native flowers to say the things that are too hard to speak.\nAs she grows older, family secrecy, a devastating betrayal and a man who's not all he seems combine to make Alice realise there are some stories that flowers alone cannot tell. If she is to have the freedom she craves, she must find the courage to possess the most powerful story she knows: her own.

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

Literature & Fiction

Ringland, Holly

Literary

Anansi International

An enchanting and captivating novel about how our untold stories haunt us ― and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. After her family suffers a tragedy, nine-year-old Alice Hart is forced to leave her idyllic seaside home. She is taken in by her grandmother, June, a flower farmer who raises Alice on the language of Australian native flowers, a way to say the things that are too hard to speak. Under the watchful eye of June and the women who run the farm, Alice settles, but grows up increasingly frustrated by how little she knows of her family’s story. In her early twenties, Alice’s life is thrown into upheaval again when she suffers devastating betrayal and loss. Desperate to outrun grief, Alice flees to the dramatically beautiful central Australian desert. In this otherworldly landscape Alice thinks she has found solace, until she meets a charismatic and ultimately dangerous man. Spanning two decades, set between sugar cane fields by the sea, a native Australian flower farm, and a celestial crater in the central desert, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart follows Alice’s unforgettable journey, as she learns that the most powerful story she will ever possess is her own.

Contemporary

House of Anansi Press

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Romance

Pan Books

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Abarcando dos decadas y llevandonos de los campos de azucar de cana en las costas australianas a una granja de flores nativas, pasando por uno de los crateres de la desertica zona central del continente, Las flores perdidas de Alice Hart relata la emocionante historia de una nina, hija de un padre maltratador, que tiene que aprender a romper los patrones que tejieron su pasado y coger las riendas que la llevaran a disfrutar de su propia vida. El debut literario de Holly Ringland es un viaje delicioso y elocuente por la flora australiana, asi como un valiente relato sobre los secretos que guardamos y que nos persiguen y sobre aquello que nos contamos a nosotros mismos para sobrevivir. / The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart tells the moving story of a girl, daughter of an abusive father, who has to learn to break the patterns of her past and take the reins that will lead her to enjoy her own life. The literary debut of Holly Ringland is a delightful, eloquent journey through the Australian flora.

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Salamandra

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