| Description |
385 pages ; 20 cm |
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First published 2018 by Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Australia--title page verso. |
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This paperback edition first published 2023 by Pan Books an imprint of Pan Macmillan--title page verso. |
| Summary |
"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, forcing her to flee 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."--publisher. |
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"Nine-year-old Alice Hart has grown up in an isolated home on the Australian coastline where her mother's enchanting garden shelters her from the dark moods of her father. When tragedy changes her life irrevocably, Alice is sent to live with the grandmother she's never known on a native-flower farm, which 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 learns to use the language of flowers to say the things too hard to speak. But as she grows older, Alice realizes that there are things that even the flowers cannot tell her. 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."--page 4 of cover. |
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Abused women -- Fiction.
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Family secrets -- Fiction.
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Grandmothers -- Fiction.
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Floriculture -- Australia -- Fiction.
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Flowers -- Symbolic aspects -- Fiction.
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Deserts -- Australia -- Fiction.
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Australia -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Novels.
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| ISBN |
9781035027989 |
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1035027984 |
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