The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
The beautiful and inspiring international bestselling novel from a much-loved award-winning author, now a major TV series on Prime Video
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Publisher Description
Winner of the 2019 ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year Award.
The international bestseller, now sold to over 30 territories internationally, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart tells the enchanting and compelling story of a young girl, daughter of an abusive father, who has to learn the hard way that she can break the patterns of the past, live on her own terms and find her own strength.
'Lush, powerful ...an engrossing novel of female survival.' Bookseller + Publisher
Now an AACTA Award winning TV series on Prime Video.
A young girl loses both her parents in a tragic event, and is taken to live with her grandmother on a flower farm. Growing up, Alice learns the language of Australian native flowers as a way to say the things that are too hard to speak. But she also learns that there are secrets within secrets about her past. An unexpected betrayal leaves her reeling, and she escapes to try to make her own - sometimes painful - way through the world, and to find her story.
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart is a story about stories: those we inherit, those we select to define us, and those we decide to hide. It is a novel about the secrets we keep and how they haunt us, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.
Spanning twenty years, and 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 the life of Alice as she discovers that the most powerful story she will ever possess is her own.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Growing up with an extremely abusive father leaves permanent scars on Alice Hart, both inside and out. She struggles to form healthy relationships with others, but her connection to nature—water, fire and most importantly, flowers—is innate and unusually intuitive. Holly Ringland’s debut novel is as emotional as it is vivid, with detailed depictions of Australian landscapes illuminating each new phase of Alice’s troubled life. Part cautionary tale, part ode to maternal love and female empowerment, this is a sobering, beautiful story told with finesse and respect.
Customer Reviews
Great read
Couldn’t put the book away. Great story.
Beautiful
I loved it!
Alice Hart
I absolutely love this book. The characters are so real & I felt like I knew them personally by the end of the book. The descriptions of flowers & plants are amazing. A really good read that I would highly recommend.