The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart: The beautiful and inspiring international bestse

Description: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland The beautiful and inspiring international bestselling novel from a much-loved award-winning author, now a major TV series on Prime Video FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Winner of the 2019 ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year Award.The international bestseller, now sold to over 30 territories internationally, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart tells the enchanting and compelling story of a young girl, daughter of an abusive father, who has to learn the hard way that she can break the patterns of the past, live on her own terms and find her own strength. Lush, powerful ...an engrossing novel of female survival. Bookseller + PublisherNow an AACTA Award winning TV series on Prime Video. 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.The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart is a story about stories: those we inherit, those we select to define us, and those we decide to hide. It is a novel about the secrets we keep and how they haunt us, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.Spanning twenty years, and 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 the life of Alice as she discovers that the most powerful story she will ever possess is her own. Author Biography Holly Ringland grew up wild and barefoot in her mothers tropical garden in Northern Australia. When she was nine years old, her family lived in a camper van for two years in North America,travelling from one national park to another, an experience that sparked Hollys lifelong interest in cultures and stories. In her twenties, Holly worked for four years in a remote Indigenous community in the central Australian desert. She moved to England in 2009 and obtained her MA in Creative Writing from the University of Manchester in 2011. She now lives between the UK and Australia. Hollys essays and short fiction have been published in various anthologies and literary journals. In 2015, the first chapter of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart won Griffith Reviews annual writer award, which included a week-long fellowship at Varuna House, Australias top national writing residency. Details ISBN1460754476 Author Holly Ringland Publisher HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd Year 2019 ISBN-10 1460754476 ISBN-13 9781460754474 Format Paperback Imprint HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd Place of Publication New South Wales Country of Publication Australia Publication Date 2019-02-18 Pages 373 Language English DEWEY 823/.92 Birth 1956 Position EDITOR Qualifications S.J. Subtitle The beautiful and inspiring international bestselling novel from a much-loved award-winning author, now a major TV series on Prime Video Alternative 9781460754337 Audience General NZ Release Date 2019-02-24 AU Release Date 2019-02-18 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:143264422;

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