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.
In her early twenties, Alice’s life is thrown into upheaval
again when she suffers devastating betrayal and loss. Desperate to outrun
grief, Alice flees 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.
Holly Ringland’s debut novel spans at least two decades. I
found following Alice’s dramas showed a somewhat repeating pattern as can often
happen in families. It was a great story, made all the more appealing with the
inclusion of the flowers with illustrations.
I absolutely loved reading this book to the point that I did not want it
to end.
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