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The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

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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. The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart is a book that glows - in the fire and heart of it; in the wonder and hope of it. Holly Ringland is a gifted, natural storyteller and her novel - about finding magic in the dark; about the power of freedom and the freedom of story - is truly a light-giving, tender thing. A vivid, compelling, utterly moving debut -- Brooke Davis

Alice Hart / The Lost Flowers of Alice Las flores perdidas de Alice Hart / The Lost Flowers of Alice

The setting in The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart is quite breathtaking and forms the lifeblood of this novel. The landscape shifts a few times in this novel, from the coast, to the rural landscape of the flower farm, to lastly the arid desert, where Alice attempts to find herself. There were many spots in the novel where the setting and the related sharpness of the prose impressed me immensely. The scenes involving Alice’s coming of age in the flower farm were by far my favourite sections of the novel. These passages were a pure delight, all my senses and emotions were in overdrive while I was reading through these scenes. Ringland clearly knows how to transport her reader to the locations of her novel with ease.Alice goes to live with her Grandmother June, she owns a flower farm called Thornfield and it’s been in the family for generations. A place where a group of twelve ladies live and work and her June likes to help women in need and it's a type of half-way house. All in all, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart is a deeply moving novel that will enchant, captivate, repel, and consume you all at once. I feel as though I haven’t even come close to covering all this novel contains but it is such an incredible story with so many themes and I’m loathe to delve too deep for fear of spoiling key plotlines. I’ll leave you now with my favourite scene of all, when a traumatised little girl first discovers the beauty of her new home. 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 *

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland | Waterstones

I’m glad I’m not a prestigious limited TV drama. It looks exhausting. Such is the faint but persistent feeling that comes with watching The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (the slightly laborious title being the perfect foreshadow of the entire experience). It is good – it is – but, crikey, you can feel every ounce of effort that has gone into making it so. 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.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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