The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

On a remote Australian coastline, in a home where her mother Agnes's love coexisted with her father's cruelty, lives nine-year-old Alice Hart. Her only sanctuary from his fits of rage was her mother's flower garden. But a tragedy — a fire that took everything — forces Alice to leave her old life behind. She finds herself on her grandmother June's flower farm, a woman she never knew, surrounded by flowers and broken female destinies. The adult Alice learns the language of flowers, which helps her express the unspeakable, and she realizes that some wounds cannot be healed even by flowers. Family secrets are buried deeper than the roots of the plants. To find freedom, Alice must find the strength to uncover the most terrible story of all — her own.