Nine-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 flower has a meaning and, as she settles into her new life, Alice uses this language of native flowers to say the things that are too hard to speak.\nAs she grows older, family secrecy, a devastating betrayal and a man who's not all he seems combine to make Alice realise there are some stories that flowers alone cannot tell. If she is to have the freedom she craves, she must find the courage to possess the most powerful story she knows: her own.

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

Literature & Fiction

Ringland, Holly

Literary

Anansi International

30 daily affirmation cards inspired by the beloved book The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart Following the worldwide success of Holly Ringland's critically acclaimed debut novel The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, this gorgeous set of affirmation cards continues the powerful message to 'have courage, take heart' - to Be Your Own Wildflower - each and every day. Thoughtfully curated and featuring stunning full-colour artwork, these cards can be used as meditations, reflections or daily inspiration through the celebration of unique Australian flowers and the calming power of nature.

Be Your Own Wildflower: 30 daily affirmation cards inspired by Holly Ringland's beloved book The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Alternative Medicine

Harper by Design AU

An enchanting and captivating novel about how our untold stories haunt us ― and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. After her family suffers a tragedy, nine-year-old Alice Hart is forced to leave her idyllic seaside home. She is taken in by her grandmother, June, a flower farmer who raises Alice on the language of Australian native flowers, a way to say the things that are too hard to speak. 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. Spanning two decades, 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 Alice’s unforgettable journey, as she learns that the most powerful story she will ever possess is her own.

Contemporary

House of Anansi Press

A haunting, magical novel about joy, grief, courage and transformation from the international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart. 
‘On the afternoon that Esther Wilding drove homeward along the coast, a year after her sister had walked into the sea and disappeared, the light was painfully golden.’ 
The last time Esther Wilding’s beloved older sister Aura was seen, she was walking along the shore towards the sea. In the wake of Aura’s disappearance, Esther’s family struggles to live with their loss. To seek the truth about her sister’s death, Esther reluctantly travels from Lutruwita/Tasmania, to Copenhagen, and then to the Faroe Islands, following the trail of the stories Aura left behind: seven fairy tales about selkies, swans and women, alongside cryptic verses Aura wrote and had secretly tattooed on her body. The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding is a sweeping, deeply beautiful and profoundly moving novel about the far reaches of sisterly love, the power of wearing your heart on your skin and the ways life can transform when we find the courage to feel the fullness of both grief and joy.

The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

Genre Fiction

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart [Paperback] Ringland, Holly

Lost Flowers Of Alice Hart

Romance

Pan Books

Les fleurs sauvages

Abarcando dos decadas y llevandonos de los campos de azucar de cana en las costas australianas a una granja de flores nativas, pasando por uno de los crateres de la desertica zona central del continente, Las flores perdidas de Alice Hart relata la emocionante historia de una nina, hija de un padre maltratador, que tiene que aprender a romper los patrones que tejieron su pasado y coger las riendas que la llevaran a disfrutar de su propia vida. El debut literario de Holly Ringland es un viaje delicioso y elocuente por la flora australiana, asi como un valiente relato sobre los secretos que guardamos y que nos persiguen y sobre aquello que nos contamos a nosotros mismos para sobrevivir. / The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart tells the moving story of a girl, daughter of an abusive father, who has to learn to break the patterns of her past and take the reins that will lead her to enjoy her own life. The literary debut of Holly Ringland is a delightful, eloquent journey through the Australian flora.

Las flores perdidas de Alice Hart / The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Spanish Edition)

Salamandra

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The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

Be Your Own Wildflower: 30 daily affirmation cards inspired by Holly Ringland's beloved book The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

Lost Flowers Of Alice Hart

Les fleurs sauvages

Las flores perdidas de Alice Hart / The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Spanish Edition)