'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.
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
( 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.
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)
'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)
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)
'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)
'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)
'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)
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)
