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The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

By: Holly Ringland
Narrated by: Louise Crawford
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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 + Publisher

Now 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.

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This beautiful book probably needs a trigger warning. Contains (not overly graphic) depictions of family/ domestic violence and animal abuse. I wasn’t expecting that at all and wouldn’t be something I’d usually tolerate in a book, however
I really enjoyed this book. It’s captivating storytelling of relationships and hardships of insights and growing up. I loved all the flower references and the fictional red dirt town . The Spanish accent should really be re recorded

Excellent storytelling

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This story had great parts and a lot of potential but the storytelling didn’t do it for me. It was a bit slow moving, I found myself waiting for the turning point which only came in the last chapter. There were parts that didn’t really add anything to the narrative. And I really wanted the main character to come to a realisation and turn her life around herself rather than seemingly get out of a bad situation purely by luck.

A little slow moving for me

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This was a good story but I felt like some parts were a bit weak and not believable. The indigenous accents were terrible and the narrator often made the made character sound childish.

Enjoyable

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I loved this book - I ended up buying a hard copy of it after finding it impossible to listen to the audio. The narrator makes the characters all sound heartless and like they aren't real humans. Found it highly discouraging and almost put me off the book.
Would highly recommend READING the book - gives you much more of a flavour of what the world is..

Terrible Performance

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loved every minute of this book. It's very descriptive with the Australian landscape and flowers

Loved It

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