The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

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Guilt, grief, and the toxic effect of harbouring family secrets play out in this enchanting and heartfelt novel by debut Australian author, Holly Ringland. The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart is a story that orbits around wildflowers. The book itself is utterly gorgeous, from the cover through to the artwork detailed throughout. The chapters are each named for a specific wildflower/bush/grass that directly relates to the themes contained within. The meaning is given for each, along with a short description of the characteristics. This was a delightfully unique touch that culminated in greater importance by the end of the novel. The acting is great, the cast superb, the scenery gorgeous, and the story line disturbing, but necessary. The years pass and Alice's life is seemingly enmeshed in the farm, where she has learnt the language of native flowers just like all the women in her family that came before her. Love comes and goes, but on the night of a devastating storm, when Alice finds out that she has been betrayed, she abandons her life at Thornfield and flees to the central Australian desert. There she reinvents herself as a national park ranger and begins to think she may at last have found happiness. 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 Tikriausiai kaip ir daugelis kitų jau skaičiusiųjų pirmiausiai norėčiau pagirti šios knygos viršelį 🥰 Baltos lankos tikrai pasistengė ✨ Nori nenori, bet rankos tarsi pačios tiesiasi paimti šią knygą. O smagiausia tas, jog ne tik šios knygos viršelis man patiko, o ir tai kas slypi jos viduje.

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And I’m over the language of flowers. The book implies that the characters are expressing what they can’t say in words through flowers but it’s a pretty limited language, they are really not saying much. 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. After weeks in the desert, there was something about feeling small, unfamiliar and out of place that Alice enjoyed. It was as if she could, at any moment, recreate herself entirely, and no one would notice. She could be whomever she chose.” 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. She’d read about alchemy in her library books; she knew the tale of Rumpelstiltskin. Her father’s shed was where he spun straw into gold.”

The most enchanting debut novel of 2018, this is an irresistible, deeply moving and romantic story of a young girl, daughter of an abusive father, who has to learn the hard way that she can break the patterns of the past, live on her own terms and find her own strength. Enchanting; heartbreaking; divine! Stunning; spectacular; poignant! What a debut! The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart is all that and more, by an Australian author I’ll be keeping an eye out for from now on! Holly Ringland’s debut novel is full of depth and emotion; the story of a young girl who had to find the strength to live a life which was so different from the one she had envisioned. The cover of the book is beautiful – I was drawn to it – the beginning of each chapter with the type of Australian native flower and its meaning adds more to the story. Holly Ringland has captured the essence of Australia, and I have no hesitation in recommending The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart highly.

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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. 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.Twig (stern and resolute ): ‘If anything, she(Alice), deserves more. From You. From us. From this place. She’s your family’. 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.

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A young girl from a violent upbringing is orphaned and moves in with her grandmother on a flower farm. [2] Cast [ edit ] Sigourney Weaver plays against type in her character June Hart, a manipulative, controlling matriarch, who unsympathetically tries to hold her "family" together, often to their detriment. The days when her father wasn’t home were the best of all for young Alice Hart. She and her mother would tend the garden together, finding a calm and peace that was never around when he was there. Alice adored her mother and was terrified of her father. But at nine years of age, a tragedy meant Alice had to live with her grandmother – a woman she had never met – on a flower farm a long way from the seaside that was the only home Alice had known. Rich, vibrant and alive with the messy, sometimes violent, song of human connection. Holly Ringland is a writer to watch out for -- Jenn AshworthIt feels a bit cruel to rate this novel so low. The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart is absorbing. The characters are compelling. It's not in any way offensive. But it's also...kind of bad. Some parts of the book worked well, but at other parts the only thing keeping me engaged was the thought of writing a deliciously scathing Goodreads takedown. Alice will be a victim of an episode of violence by Dylan’s hand. She will discover the violent side of men and will ask for help from June and Twig. After returning to the farm, June intends to fix the mistake she made in life: she reveals the truth about Charlie to Alice, and Alice will leave to meet her brother. After meeting Sally again, she will also learn the truth about the fire: it wasn’t her who killed her parents; it was Agnes, her mother, to kill her father Clem while he was choking her. Agnes tried to save Alice and escape with her to June’s farm, but she dies intoxicated by the smoke. Alice, the book’s protagonist, is endearing as a child but the grown-up Alice is terribly milquetoast with a tendency to swoon (she faints a few times, including once when a cute guy she’s just met takes off his sunglasses and looks at her). If only she’d been a hardier specimen, not this wilted blossom, I might have been more invested in her story.