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The Hope Flower

By: Joy Dettman
Narrated by: Deidre Rubenstein
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From the best-selling author of Mallawindy and the Woody Creek series comes a story of love and survival.

Lori Smyth-Owen isn't your average teenager - as you'd expect from the only girl in a family of 12. Or they were a family, until their father took his own life to escape his bed-bound wife, too obese to leave her room.

But for Lori and the remaining brothers, there is no escape from their volatile, mentally unstable mother. They raise themselves away from the gaze of the authorities, realising that though abandoned, they are now in charge. They can control everything, including their mother's food intake.

In time, their mother emerges, after losing two-thirds of her body weight. But does she bring with her the seed of hope for a better future, or will all hell break loose?

©2021 Joy Dettman (P)2021 Macmillan Australia Audio Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Small Town & Rural

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"The texture of the writing as well as the mind-boggling plots give her books a fatally addictive attraction." (Saturday Age)
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another enjoyable story from Joy Dettman. She also included an Easter Egg about Jenny Morrison Hopper thank you for that Joy!!!

Joy’s use of language and dialect has me historical with laughter. Excellent story teller and a nice sequel to Henry’s daughter

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Fabulous story.....love Joy Dettmans books. Sets the scene perfectly and you feel like you are living in it. Deidre Rubinstein is a fabulous narrator.

Great story

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Joy Dettman never fails to disappoint with her tales of family life in country Australia. Beautifully read by Deidre Rubenstein....I have started choosing my books for her narration rather than the author!

Another fabulous novel

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loved it. loved the narrator. another masterpiece by joy dettman. hope this is the first in a series. hope its another woody creek. want to know what happens to laurie in the future and her many brothers.

brilliant

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