The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
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Mrs E Fudge –
2023-03-19
Possibly the most beautiful book I have ever read. This will sit with me for decades to come!
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Description
Winner of the 2019 ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year Award.
The international bestseller, now sold to over 30 territories internationally, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart tells the enchanting and compelling 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.
'Lush, powerful ...an engrossing novel of female survival.' Bookseller + Publisher
A young girl loses both her parents in a tragic event, and is taken to live with her grandmother on a flower farm. Growing up, Alice learns the language of Australian native flowers as a way to say the things that are too hard to speak. But she also learns that there are secrets within secrets about her past. An unexpected betrayal leaves her reeling, and she escapes to try to make her own - sometimes painful - way through the world, and to find her story.
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart is a story about stories: those we inherit, those we select to define us, and those we decide to hide. It is a novel about the secrets we keep and how they haunt us, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.
Spanning twenty years, and set between sugar cane fields by the sea, a native Australian flower farm and a celestial crater in the central desert, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart follows the life of Alice as she discovers that the most powerful story she will ever possess is her own.
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Customer Reviews
The lost flowers of Alice Hart
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Josiegoat –
2023-03-11
Beautifully written, the use of correct terminology for place names and culture interwoven through this book is done perfectly.
Great read
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Joooooshy –
2023-03-02
Couldn’t put the book away. Great story.
Love this book
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AlliOnHoliday –
2022-11-15
I don’t often fall in love with books but this one has my heart. A compulsive read.
What a wonderful story
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Bibi Foy –
2022-03-10
This book is a beautiful story, one of freedom and self worth , I found myself smiling and wanting more at the end . I highly recommend this book lv cxx
Simply wonderful
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Mickey_8383 –
2021-08-22
The most beautiful book I’ve ever read.
Fabulous book
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Chrissyandthebooks –
2021-06-27
Beautifully written story that drew me in.
Flowerastic 🌺🌻🌸🌼🌹
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Purple Mirror –
2020-01-23
Absolutely beautifully written, addressed lots of sensitive issues & loved the way flowers were incorporated throughout the book.
The topics addressed were real & everyday issues that are usually swept under the carpet & hidden, I couldn’t put it down.
Thank you 🌻 Alice
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Kazzican –
2019-07-24
This book is so beautifully written, the language smooths over the sadness and tragedy at it’s heart. It will stay with you. Read with tissues.
Brilliant read
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Cinnamon2582 –
2018-12-19
This novel was incredibly written. It didn’t shy from the horror of domestic violence whilst setting the story against the beauty of Australian flowers and landscape. Very well crafted. Amazing resilience in Alice Hart... a true inspiration. Because of her I can...
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matilda101 –
2018-10-08
This book is beautifully written. The author writes with authority throughout providing well researched information on everything from the amazing native flowers to indigenous stories and issues against a tantalising Australian landscape.
Unfortunately the novel is desperately and unrelentingly sad. The characters are well developed but never move forward from being either a victim or dead. Human nature has shades but these humans are only dark. Brutal honesty is a requirement for a believable book but these characters don’t move past brutal even the poor dogs in the novel become targets.
This reader wanted to like this book and read to the end hoping for, well something hopeful.
Amazing! 🌺
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Possumi –
2018-07-17
Wow! I’m an avid reader and this was the best Australian novel I have read since Big Little Lies, still thinking about it 2 days after finishing.
Can’t wait to see what the author writes next 👍🏻
Amazing
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Daalla –
2018-06-16
Thank you for writing such a beautifully written story. Your characters had strength and depth, and the storyline was woven perfectly
Wonderful
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Wordyhar –
2018-06-13
This is an interesting book, I was torn between sadness and the beauty of the environment and the language of flowers. Well worth reading, I couldn’t stop reading.
Loved it
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2013aq –
2018-06-13
This is such a great book!
Brilliant
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Courtneyjjoy –
2018-05-27
I’ve fallen in love with flowers and Alice. What an emotional roller coaster and I could not put this book down.
In awe
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MiaBrittingham –
2018-05-01
I’ve never been more sad to finish reading a story. Simply beautiful, in every way.
Brilliant!
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Kazma37 –
2018-04-29
I thoroughly enjoyed this book - so emotional, evocative and descriptive, and a beautiful, respectful acknowledgment to our indigenous Australians, their cultures and beliefs. I long to visit inland Australia and see the native wildflowers and the landscapes for myself. Well done Holly! A wonderful read!
Unexpected. Wonderful. Difficult.
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J4C –
2018-04-26
I don’t know how to describe this book adequately suffice to say I couldn’t put it down, carried the characters with me even when I wasn’t reading and straight away went looking for the next book by this author.
Beautiful book
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LunaSnoop –
2018-04-14
I read the whole lot in a couple of days, every chance I got I'd pick it up, now I've read it, I have a serious book hangover.
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Angela abcdefg –
2018-04-10
A beautiful compassionate book that deals with a truly disturbing subject. It is so pleasing to read a novel set in such stunning parts of Australia. I could not put this book down.