The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

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Twig (stern and resolute ): ‘If anything, she(Alice), deserves more. From You. From us. From this place. She’s your family’.

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She’d read about alchemy in her library books; she knew the tale of Rumpelstiltskin. Her father’s shed was where he spun straw into gold.” I wish to thank Harper Collins Books Australia for providing me with a free copy of this book for review purposes.Kaip man patiko ši knyga! Pirmiausiai bravo autorei, nes skaitant knygą jauti, kaip ji alsuote alsuoja Australijos dvasia. Nuostabūs kraštovaizdžio aprašymai, o kur dar kiekviename skyriuje aprašyta vis kitokia Australijos gėlė. Mane tai labai sužavėjo 😍 Would I recommend this? Not really, although it was certainly entertaining. Bits of it were genuinely embarrassing to me. It gave me severe het lag and made me wonder if straight women were Ok. The story of Thornfield and the generations of women who ran it was kind of weak and didn't seem historically plausible. It's not even the best language of flowers book I've ever read! At least the descriptions of the land and the flowers were nice. The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart spans twenty years, you follow Alice growing up and a unique coming of age story, as an adult and she doesn’t want to make the same mistakes as her mother. Alice always felt like she was waiting for something that’s just never going to come, in the end she discovers whats missing and it’s due to the big secret that's been kept from her and she can't keep running forever.

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Alice is raised on an Australian wildflower farm, and her grandmother June teaches her the family tradition of speaking through flowers, something I found both beautiful and terrible all at once. Beautiful, because how lovely to be able to communicate a gesture or heartfelt moment with the right flower. Sometimes it’s hard to know what to say, we just feel too much. But on the other hand, this family had communicated every important thing through flowers for so long that they no longer knew how to simply talk about the tough stuff, leading to terrible consequences and heartache for Alice. June hid her words behind flowers and let her own selfish desires determine her actions. It affected her son, Clem, and then reached into the next generation with Alice, who had difficulty as well with communicating when she really needed to. I liked how Alice overcame this at the end and made the language of flowers bend to her own will, using them to tell her story rather than using them to avoid confronting it. Ritmul narațiunii, construcția personajelor, descrierile din natură și ale florilor (fiecare având o semnificație aparte) sunt superbe și dau întregii scriituri o notă de speranță, făcând lectura una fascinantă, iar toate aceste elemente vin împachetate la propriu într-o copertă-colaj floral. Alice Hart, protagonista, provine dintr-o familie disfuncțională, în care tatăl le maltratează atât pe ea, cât și pe mama ei. Asta până când are loc un incendiu, casa ia foc, părinții mor, iar Alice este luată de o bunica pe nume June (de care nu avea habar ca trăiește), la o fermă unde se cultivă flori australiene. Captivating and enchanting, this is a tale of redemption, healing, and unraveling the stories of the past, while carving out a future for yourself * Nyssa Reads * While the plot of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart continues, we discover more connections between Sally and Alice’s family. Gemma, Sally’s dead daughter, was actually Clem’s daughter. So Sally develops a special relationship with Alice, driven by the physical resemblance with her own daughter (Alice and Gemma have the same biological father). We also discover that Agnes saw a friend in Sally, and she was sharing with her a plan to leave Clem with Alice and find refuge at June’s farm, through the books they kept borrowing. After Alice’s parents die, Sally does her best to obtain custody, but she ultimately accepts that June will take care of her. One crucial element is later explained by the plot of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart and needs to be highlighted in this recap: the baby who survived the fire will be adopted by Sally and John. So Charlie, the boy we see in the second half of the series, is Alice’s brother, who miraculously survived the fire.

After Alice overhears a conversation, she discovers she hasn’t been told the entire truth, she feels betrayed and leaves. Alice has no idea where she’s going to go and she ends up in the desert of the Northern Territory and where the sturt's desert peas flower nine months of the year. About halfway through the series, we leap forward in time (in an otherwise exceptionally languorously paced endeavour) to Alice in her early 20s (now played by Alycia Debnam-Carey) getting her first job and her first proper boyfriend. This unleashes a whole new raft of questions, about whether we can ever really outrun our pasts, escape our traumas and break patterns imprinted on us before we can consciously reject them.