The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly RinglandNine year old Alice Hart grows up in an isolated, idyllic home between sugar cane fields and the sea, where her mother's enchanting flowers and their hidden messages shelter her from the dark moods of her father. When tragedy irrevocably changes her life, Alice goes to live with the grandmother she never knew existed, on an Australian native flower farm that gives refuge to women who, like Alice, are lost or broken. In the Victorian tradition, every

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} Joint winner of the 2020 Prime Minister's Award for Non-Fiction

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Opening and closing with startling elegies set in the charged moments before and after a death