The lost flowers of Alice Hart / Families Australian fiction. Floriculture Flowers Domestic fiction. Abused children Abused children. Family secrets. Flowers. Girls. Grandmothers. Interpersonal relations. Man-woman relationships. Interpersonal relations Man-woman relationships Grandmothers Girls Family secrets
Ringland, Holly,
The lost flowers of Alice Hart / Holly Ringland. - London : Fourth Estate, 2018. - 388 pages ; 24 cm.
Alice Hart lives in isolation by the sea, where her mother's enchanting flowers and their hidden messages shelter her from the dark moods of her father. When tragedy changes her life irrevocably, 9-year-old Alice goes to live with the grandmother she never knew existed, on a 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 flowers to say the things that are too hard to speak. As she grows older, though, 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.
9781460754337 (paperback)
Families--Fiction.
Australian fiction.
Floriculture--Australia--Fiction.
Flowers--Australia--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Abused children--Fiction.
Abused children.
Domestic fiction.
Family secrets.
Flowers.
Girls.
Grandmothers.
Interpersonal relations.
Man-woman relationships.
Flowers--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Grandmothers--Fiction.
Girls--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
Domestic fiction
Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Australian fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
813.6
The lost flowers of Alice Hart / Holly Ringland. - London : Fourth Estate, 2018. - 388 pages ; 24 cm.
Alice Hart lives in isolation by the sea, where her mother's enchanting flowers and their hidden messages shelter her from the dark moods of her father. When tragedy changes her life irrevocably, 9-year-old Alice goes to live with the grandmother she never knew existed, on a 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 flowers to say the things that are too hard to speak. As she grows older, though, 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.
9781460754337 (paperback)
Families--Fiction.
Australian fiction.
Floriculture--Australia--Fiction.
Flowers--Australia--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Abused children--Fiction.
Abused children.
Domestic fiction.
Family secrets.
Flowers.
Girls.
Grandmothers.
Interpersonal relations.
Man-woman relationships.
Flowers--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Grandmothers--Fiction.
Girls--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
Domestic fiction
Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Australian fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
813.6