Alice's Aphasia Flower
by (australia)holly Lily Of The Valley
About This Novel
Between the coast and the sugar cane fields stands an isolated house. Inside the house, nine-year-old Alice Hart was sitting at her desk, planning how to burn her father with fire-the uncertain man who had enveloped the world of Alice and her mother with a haze of violence. When an accident takes the lives of Alice's parents, she is sent to the home of her grandmother, whom she has never met. It is a farm of native Australian flowers and a sanctuary for women only. There, Alice learned to use the language of flowers to heal childhood pain, and to use flowers to express feelings that words could not express. But as Alice grows up, grandma's protection gradually becomes more like imprisonment. Grandma's concealment, betrayal, and a wrong love affair made Alice realize that the language of flowers cannot write her own life for her. She must find the courage to confront loss and pain and tell her own story.
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