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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
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'The most enchanting debut novel of 2018, this is an irresistible, deeply moving and romantic 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.

'An enchanting and captivating novel, about how our untold stories haunt us - and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.

'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.

'Under the watchful eye of June and the women who run the farm, Alice settles, but grows up increasingly frustrated by how little she knows of her family's story. 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.

'Spanning two decades, 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 Alice's unforgettable journey, as she learns that the most powerful story she will ever possess is her own.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Adaptations

form y separately published work icon The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart Sarah Lambert , Kirsty Fisher , Kim Wilson , ( dir. Glendyn Ivin ) Australia : Made Up Stories Amazon Studios Endeavour Content , 2023 23434630 2023 series - publisher film/TV

'The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart tells the compelling story of a young girl, Alice Hart, whose violent childhood casts a dark shadow over her adult life. After a family tragedy in which she loses both her abusive father and beloved mother in a mysterious fire, 9-year-old Alice is taken to live with her grandmother June on a flower farm, where she learns that there are secrets within secrets about her and her family’s past.'

Source: Amazon Studios.

Notes

  • As of December 2017, the rights to the novel had been sold into the UK, Canada, Germany, France, Holland, Italy, Spain and Latin America, the Catalonia region, Poland, Portugal, Turkey, Israel, Japan, Serbia, Russia, and Slovakia.

  • Dedication:

    For women who doubt the worth and power of their story.

    For my mother, who gave everything to being me flowers.

    And this book is for Sam,

    without whom my lifelong dream would remain unwritten. 

  • 'Australian producer Bruna Papandrea’s company Made Up Stories has acquired screen rights to Holly Ringland’s debut novel The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Fourth Estate), and will develop the project for television.' (Source : Books + Publishing News 12 October 2018)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • c
      Australia,
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      :
      Fourth Estate ,
      2018 .
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      Extent: 336p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 19 March 2018.

      ISBN: 9781460754337, 1460754336
    • Concord, Ontario,
      c
      Canada,
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      Americas,
      :
      House of Anansi Press ,
      2018 .
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      Extent: 400p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 7 August 2018.

      ISBN: 9781487005221
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Mantle ,
      2018 .
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      Extent: 409p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 28 June 2019
      ISBN: 9781509859856 (ebk), 1509859853 (ebk)
    • Sydney South, South Sydney area, Sydney Southern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Fourth Estate , 2019 .
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      Extent: 400p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 18 February 2019.

      ISBN: 9781460754474, 1460754476
    • c
      Australia,
      c
      :
      Fourth Estate ,
      2023 .
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      Extent: 384p.
      Edition info: TV tie-in ed.
      Note/s:
      •  Published June 2023

      ISBN: 9781460764343
Alternative title: Het verhaal van Alice Hart
Language: Dutch
    • Amsterdam,
      c
      Netherlands,
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Luitingh-Sijthoff ,
      2018 .
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      Extent: 414p.p.
      ISBN: 9789024577637, 9024577632, 9789024577644, 9024577640
    • Amsterdam,
      c
      Netherlands,
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Luitingh-Sijthoff ,
      2019 .
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      Extent: 416p.p.
      ISBN: 9789021023533, 9021023539

Other Formats

  • Sound recording.
  • Dyslexic edition.
  • Large print.
  • Braille

Works about this Work

Five Emerging Australian Authors Talk about Writing Their Breakthrough Novels Sarah L'Estrange , 2019 single work column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , January 2019;

'Some of Australia's best known authors managed to reach literary fame with their debut novels: Kate Grenville with Lilian's Story, which won the Vogel Literary Award in 1984; Richard Flanagan with Death of a River Guide, which won several awards, including the National Fiction Award in 1996; and Andrew McGahan with Praise, which won the Vogel in 1991.' (Introduction)

y separately published work icon A Conversation with Holly Ringland Amanda Rayner (interviewer), 2018 23467614 2018 single work podcast interview

'Hear our bookseller Amanda Rayner in conversation with author Holly Ringland about her powerful debut novel, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart.'  (Production summary)

Floral Communication Claire West (interviewer), 2018 single work interview
— Appears in: Books + Publishing , April vol. 98 no. 1 2018; (p. 22)

'Holly Ringland's The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart is 'a lush, powerful contemporary novel' about female survival in Australia's Red Centre. Reviewer Claire West spoke to the author.'  (Introduction)

Floral Communication Claire West (interviewer), 2018 single work interview
— Appears in: Books + Publishing , April vol. 98 no. 1 2018; (p. 22)

'Holly Ringland's The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart is 'a lush, powerful contemporary novel' about female survival in Australia's Red Centre. Reviewer Claire West spoke to the author.'  (Introduction)

Five Emerging Australian Authors Talk about Writing Their Breakthrough Novels Sarah L'Estrange , 2019 single work column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , January 2019;

'Some of Australia's best known authors managed to reach literary fame with their debut novels: Kate Grenville with Lilian's Story, which won the Vogel Literary Award in 1984; Richard Flanagan with Death of a River Guide, which won several awards, including the National Fiction Award in 1996; and Andrew McGahan with Praise, which won the Vogel in 1991.' (Introduction)

y separately published work icon A Conversation with Holly Ringland Amanda Rayner (interviewer), 2018 23467614 2018 single work podcast interview

'Hear our bookseller Amanda Rayner in conversation with author Holly Ringland about her powerful debut novel, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart.'  (Production summary)

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