Sounded like one of those gothic mysteries in the tradition of Du Maurier's Rebecca and Bronte's Jane Eyre. Well, it sorta is, but with modern issues. Alice is raised on an Australian wildflower farm, and her grandmother June teaches her the family tradition of speaking through flowers, something I found both beautiful and terrible all at once. Beautiful, because how lovely to be able to communicate a gesture or heartfelt moment with the right flower. Sometimes it’s hard to know what to say, we just feel too much. But on the other hand, this family had communicated every important thing through flowers for so long that they no longer knew how to simply talk about the tough stuff, leading to terrible consequences and heartache for Alice. June hid her words behind flowers and let her own selfish desires determine her actions. It affected her son, Clem, and then reached into the next generation with Alice, who had difficulty as well with communicating when she really needed to. I liked how Alice overcame this at the end and made the language of flowers bend to her own will, using them to tell her story rather than using them to avoid confronting it.

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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. HOLLY RINGLAND grew up in her mother's tropical garden on the east coast of Australia. When she was nine years old, her love of landscapes, cultures and stories was deepened by a two-year journey her family took in North America, living in a camper van and travelling from one national park to another. June owns and runs a flower farm that secretly doubles as a refuge for women (known as “the Flowers”, which is one of a few teeth-itching moments – including Clem being a super-talented sculptor who left a trail of beautiful wood carvings wherever he went – that you’re just going to have to learn to live with, I’m afraid). It is in the history of June and the farm that most of the secrets lie. Privy to most of them is her partner Twig (Leah Purcell) and Candy Blue (Frankie Adams), who was taken in by the women as a baby. 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. But as she grows older, Alice realizes 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.

After Alice overhears a conversation, she discovers she hasn’t been told the entire truth, she feels betrayed and leaves. Alice has no idea where she’s going to go and she ends up in the desert of the Northern Territory and where the sturt's desert peas flower nine months of the year. Bu bölümde Alice’in, sırayla, 7-9-10 ve 18 yaşlarında başından geçen olaylar ve genelde hayatın acı yanlarıyla tanışması anlatılmıştı. Özellikle küçük bir çocukken yaşadıkları insanın tepkisiz kalamayacağı kadar can yakıcıydı. Sonunda June’un yanında konuşup gülümsediğinde, fiziksel bir rahatlama hissettim. Kitap bittiğinde ise Alice, gözlerimin önünde büyümüş bir çocuk gibiydi.😍 Alice Hart, protagonista, provine dintr-o familie disfuncțională, în care tatăl le maltratează atât pe ea, cât și pe mama ei. Asta până când are loc un incendiu, casa ia foc, părinții mor, iar Alice este luată de o bunica pe nume June (de care nu avea habar ca trăiește), la o fermă unde se cultivă flori australiene. At its heart, this book is about finding a way to care for yourself, in a world that sometimes likes to step on its flowers * Courier Mail * Tenho como amigas Twig e Candy Baby. Meu deus como as queria abraçar mais uma vez. Senti o conforto delas quando estava com Alice. A segurança. A casa...

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This is a coming of age story. Alice Hart's father is a violent, volatile man. When Alice was nine years old, something horrific occurs which will see her sent to live on a wildflower farm, with her paternal grandmother she didn't know existed. I loved the description of Thornton and the way it was run, exclusively by women, for whom Thornton was a sanctuary and a refuge. I was looking forward to getting to know more of the women on the farm. But midway through, the novel takes a different turn and sort of loses its way, pretty much like Alice. A well-written, credible coming of age story, with elements of domestic abuse, its consequences and surviving it, turns into a melodramatic mess. I can't stand it when characters/people create unnecessary dramas by not talking to each other, and in this case, it was completely over-the-top, inexplicable and incredulous. I realise it was necessary to create conflict, but I didn't buy it and I found it frustrating. There are some powerful and highly relevant themes explored in The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, all of which are subjected to the accomplished hand of Holly Ringland. While there is heartbreaking sadness in the form of loss, domestic violence, lost love, betrayal, long held secrets, survival and trauma. On the other hand, there are themes of renewal, acceptance and self fulfillment. It takes real skill to balance the careful dichotomy between sadness and hope, but Ringland gets it just right. As a debut writer, I was blown away by her talent. An astonishingly assured debut, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart is a story of love, loss, betrayal and the redemptive power of storytelling . . . Both heartbreaking and life-affirming -- Kate ForsythIn her twenties, Holly worked for four years in a remote Indigenous community in the central Australian desert. She moved to England in 2009 and obtained her MA in Creative Writing from the University of Manchester in 2011. She now lives between the UK and Australia. Alice o günü, hayatını geri dönülmez şekilde değiştiren gün olarak hatırlayacaktı her daim, ancak anlaması yirmi yılını alacaktı: Hayat ileriye dönük yaşanır ancak geriye dönük algılanır. Tam ortasında dururken manzarayı görmek mümkün değildir. Bu bölümde her şeyin toparlanacağını, Alice’in tam anlamıyla olgunluk dönemiyle birlikte kendini bulacağını düşünmüştüm. Ama onun yerine bambaşka olaylar gelişti, işler hiç beklemediğim bir şekilde karıştı. 2. bölümde yazar, daha çok tanımak istediğim ve ‘acaba Alice için mutluluğunun, huzurunun anahtarı bu kişi olabilir mi’ diye düşündüğüm bir karakteri de bana göre çok yüzeysel yazmıştı. 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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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 author of this book has only two methods of describing anything. Either it's completely overblown, or it doesn't exist at all. This novel shines with courage, with heart, and with love. Infused with a tender ferocity, and the beauty and warmth of native flowers, it invokes great stories of loss, kindness and home -- Ashley Hay When June dies, she will leave a letter to every important woman in her life. June’s letter to Alice is her last life lesson: Alice will learn to speak against violence and prevent men from silencing their voices. The ultimate meaning of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart is explained in the plot ending: through all the experiences and the stories shared by the women at the farm, Alice will grow and learn how to face this cruel world. Alice learns the language of Australian native flowers, they help her to communicate, when she can't say the words and her grandmother hopes given time her voice will return. Alice settles in living with her nana, she goes to school for the first time and all the women at the flower farm mother her. Alice is a Floriographer, a person fluent in the language of flowers and it was popular in the Victorian era, each bloom has a meaning, used to display emotions and feelings. Holly Ringland grew up wild and barefoot in her mother’s tropical garden and it shows. She is a sensual writer whose lush descriptions, takes you into the landscape, to the smells, the sights, into the very air around the characters. ‘ Outside the wind tore the petals off her mother’s white roses and scattered them across the yard like fallen stars.’