
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
by Holly Ringland
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Pub Date Jun 28 2018 | Archive Date Jun 28 2018
Pan Macmillan | Pan
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Description
Flowers, fire and fairy tales are the elements that will forever shape nine-year-old Alice Hart's life, in The Lost Flower's of Alice Hart, the international bestseller by Holly Ringland.
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, nine-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.
Advance Praise
"Rich, vibrant and alive with the messy, sometimes violent, song of human connection. Holly Ringland is a writer to watch out for" - Jenn Ashworth, author of Fell, winner of The Society of Authors 2010 Betty Trask Award
"The best fairy tales traverse the darkest corners of the human heart, and this beautiful novel is no exception. Truth and illusion, devastation and triumph, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart will spit you out whole" - Mfanwy Jones, author of Leap and 2016 Miles Franklin Literary Award finalist
"Brave and beautiful...Alice Hart has the strength and magic of an Australian windflower in bloom" - Favel Patel, author of When the Night Comes and Past the Shallows, and 2012 Miles Franklin Award Finalist
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9781509859849 |
PRICE | £9.99 (GBP) |
PAGES | 336 |
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