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Ringland, Holly,

The lost flowers of Alice Hart / Holly Ringland. - Sydney, NSW : Fourth Estate, An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018] - 388 pages ; 24 cm

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. 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.

ISBN: 9781460754337 1460754336

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Family secrets--Fiction.
Floriculture--Fiction.
Flowers--Symbolic aspects--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Australian fiction--21st century.
Bildungsromans.
Domestic fiction.

LC Class. No.: PR6118.I54 / L67 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 823/.92 A823.4