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📚 Finished Last Night: The Lost Flowers Of Alice Hart 💐💐💐💐 A beautifully illustrated book, set in Australia. Learned much about the native flora & aboriginal stories. Theme of abuse is told delicately through flowers & healing, but its impacts are told powerfully.

Book Cover: The Lost Flowers Of Alice Hart, written by Holly Ringland.

Back Book Cover: The Lost Flowers Of Alice Hart. 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. Spanning tio decades, set betiveen 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.

Table Of Contents: The Lost Flowers Of Alice Hart. An example of the beautiful graphics throughout the book.

Example of beautiful flower graphics and poetry through the book, The Lost Flowers Of Alice Hart. There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate; The red rose cries, 'She is near, she is near; And the white rose weeps, 'She is late; The larkspur listens, 'I hear, I hear; And the lily whispers, 'I wait.' Alfred, Lord Tennyson

aug 25, 2025, 1:37 pm • 3 0

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