Haunting and dangerous – that was her time in the middle of Australia. But would Alice ever find solace? Could she make peace with her past and finally look forward to the future?

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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. Herald Sun Rich, vibrant and alive with the messy, sometimes violent, song of human connection. Holly Ringland is a writer to watch out for I think this author will find a big fan base – she’s got a lot of talent, so I’ll be keeping an eye out for her next book. But as she grows older, Alice realizes that there are things that even the flowers cannot help her say. 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. Sigourney Weaver plays against type in her character June Hart, a manipulative, controlling matriarch, who unsympathetically tries to hold her "family" together, often to their detriment.Author Holly Ringland invented the language for this book, but we know Ophelia from Shakespeare’s Hamlet where she gives flowers, saying, "There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance.” Sprigs of rosemary are used in Australia for remembrance on Anzac Day. Everyone wears a sprig of real rosemary the way people wear poppies (usually paper, I think) on Memorial (Poppy) Day. Depois desenvolvo, tenho que sentar-me e organizar ideias, sentimentos, tudo... Mas já adivinharam... ADOREI! The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart is Holly Ringland's debut novel. It's been marketed quite heavily in Australia, there was a lot of excitement about it, so I had to read it to see if the hype was deserved. Alice o günü, hayatını geri dönülmez şekilde değiştiren gün olarak hatırlayacaktı her daim, ancak anlaması yirmi yılını alacaktı: Hayat ileriye dönük yaşanır ancak geriye dönük algılanır. Tam ortasında dururken manzarayı görmek mümkün değildir.

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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. This is a coming of age story. Alice Hart's father is a violent, volatile man. When Alice was nine years old, something horrific occurs which will see her sent to live on a wildflower farm, with her paternal grandmother she didn't know existed. I loved the description of Thornton and the way it was run, exclusively by women, for whom Thornton was a sanctuary and a refuge. I was looking forward to getting to know more of the women on the farm. But midway through, the novel takes a different turn and sort of loses its way, pretty much like Alice. A well-written, credible coming of age story, with elements of domestic abuse, its consequences and surviving it, turns into a melodramatic mess. I can't stand it when characters/people create unnecessary dramas by not talking to each other, and in this case, it was completely over-the-top, inexplicable and incredulous. I realise it was necessary to create conflict, but I didn't buy it and I found it frustrating. 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.

I wish to thank Harper Collins Books Australia for providing me with a free copy of this book for review purposes. The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart is the internationally bestselling novel by Holly Ringland, perfect for fans of Where the Crawdads Sing and Kate Morton. Bu bölümde her şeyin toparlanacağını, Alice’in tam anlamıyla olgunluk dönemiyle birlikte kendini bulacağını düşünmüştüm. Ama onun yerine bambaşka olaylar gelişti, işler hiç beklemediğim bir şekilde karıştı. 2. bölümde yazar, daha çok tanımak istediğim ve ‘acaba Alice için mutluluğunun, huzurunun anahtarı bu kişi olabilir mi’ diye düşündüğüm bir karakteri de bana göre çok yüzeysel yazmıştı. In her early twenties, Holly worked for four years in a remote Indigenous community in Australia’s western desert. Moving to England in 2009, Holly obtained her MA in Creative Writing from the University of Manchester in 2011. HOLLY RINGLAND grew up in her mother's tropical garden on the east coast of Australia. When she was nine years old, her love of landscapes, cultures and stories was deepened by a two-year journey her family took in North America, living in a camper van and travelling from one national park to another.