The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

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After her family suffers a tragedy when she is nine years old, Alice Hart is forced to leave her idyllic seaside home. She is taken in by her estranged 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. But Alice also learns that there are secrets within secrets about her past. Under the watchful eye of June and The Flowers, women who run the farm, Alice grows up. But an unexpected betrayal sends her reeling, and she flees to the dramatically beautiful central Australian desert. Alice thinks she has found solace, until she falls in love with Dylan, a charismatic and ultimately dangerous man. At times things got just too treacly for me. The workers on the flower farm – all women who have fled some sort of abuse or trauma – refer to themselves collectively as ‘The Flowers’. One of the ‘Flowers’ is a blue haired twentysomething baker of glittery cupcakes named Candy Baby (she sounds more like a Strawberry Shortcake character than a grown woman!). Granted, the whole book is not like this, and things improve when the action moves from the flower farm out into the desert, but there are enough instances that it crosses the line from sweet to sappy.

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June Hart is a fascinating character, a distant, cold woman who seems almost put out by having Alice around even though she fights with Sally for custody of the child. The narrative jumps halfway through the season to Alice as a young adult (now played excellently by Alycia Debnam-Carey), and several decisions that June made in that time-leap come to the fore, which she thought were protecting Alice but at a great cost. The final stretch of the season also gives June a disease, which seems manipulative at first, but allows Weaver some of the richest dramatic material of her career as she comes to terms with the choices she made, the traumas that shaped her, and how both planted the seeds for Alice’s lost flowers. First, the plot. Alice Hart, the isolated child of an abusive father and an abused mother, suddenly loses both parents in a fire, and is taken into the care of her grandmother, who runs a flower farm and unspecified women's refuge. Drama ensues. 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. 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. Alice’le birlikte, birçok kadının geçmişinin ve yıllardır süre gelen aile mirasının, farklı kişiler açısından anlatılması çok hoştu. 3. şahıs anlatımı olsa da, bir olaya hem Alice’in açısından hem de karşısındaki kişi açısından bakmak konuyu zenginleştirmişti bana göre. Thorfiled kadınlarının 4 kuşak süren hikayelerini kısa kısa da olsa okumak hoşuma gitti.

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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. Kaip man patiko ši knyga! Pirmiausiai bravo autorei, nes skaitant knygą jauti, kaip ji alsuote alsuoja Australijos dvasia. Nuostabūs kraštovaizdžio aprašymai, o kur dar kiekviename skyriuje aprašyta vis kitokia Australijos gėlė. Mane tai labai sužavėjo 😍

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But as she grows older, Alice realises that there are things that even the flowers cannot help her say. Family secrets are buried deeper than the flowers' roots and, if she is to have the freedom she craves, she must find the courage to unearth the most powerful story she knows: her own. Based on Holly Ringland’s bestselling book of the same name, this is a tale of the enduring suffering caused by male violence against women, and the manifold ways men harm. One of the things it gets absolutely right, and for which it abandons its slightly blurry feel and pulls everything into sharp focus, is how it shows threat, the ever-present fear of violence erupting even at ostensibly happy moments, and the terrible injury when it does. The Lost Flowers shows domestic abuse to be the terrorism that it is. In her early twenties, Holly worked for four years in a remote Indigenous community in Australia’s western desert. Moving to England in 2009, Holly obtained her MA in Creative Writing from the University of Manchester in 2011. Alice’s mother has been cut off from all family, her own and her husband’s (also typical of an abusive relationship), and Alice is a lonely child with poorly patched clothes and no friends except for Oggi, the Hungarian boy at school who is bullied as much as she is.

I guess my problem lies in the fact that I just didn’t feel anything for any of the characters. Their personal situations relating to their past traumas and their ongoing individual emotional battles were meant to elicit an emotional response from the reader, but that was not the case for me. Captivating and enchanting, this is a tale of redemption, healing, and unraveling the stories of the past, while carving out a future for yourself * Nyssa Reads * I shouldn't be so harsh, as this is a debut novel. Holly Ringland's potential is apparent so I'm interested to read her second novel. About halfway through the series, we leap forward in time (in an otherwise exceptionally languorously paced endeavour) to Alice in her early 20s (now played by Alycia Debnam-Carey) getting her first job and her first proper boyfriend. This unleashes a whole new raft of questions, about whether we can ever really outrun our pasts, escape our traumas and break patterns imprinted on us before we can consciously reject them.