The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

by Holly Ringland
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 19/03/2018

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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


Now an AACTA Award winning TV series on Prime Video.


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.

ISBN:
9781460708835
9781460708835
Category:
Fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
19-03-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
4th Estate
Holly Ringland

Holly Ringland grew up wild and barefoot in her mother's tropical garden in Northern Australia. When she was nine years old, her family lived in a camper van for two years in North America,travelling from one national park to another, an experience that sparked Holly's lifelong interest in cultures and stories.

In 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. Holly's essays and short fiction have been published in various anthologies and literary journals.

In 2015, the first chapter of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart won Griffith Review's annual writer award, which included a week-long fellowship at Varuna House, Australia's top national writing residency. 

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