The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart introduces us to Alice. As a child she lives with her family in a seaside village, where they have carved out a seeming idyllic existence. Alice loves her mother, but is perplexed by her father’s moods.

Following a tragic fire Alice must leave the town and travel inland to live with her heretofore unknown Grandmother June. June’s farm, Thornfield is a home for women with nowhere else to go and Alice soon falls into the rhythms of nurturing the exotic native flowers that the women are famed for. But June is harbouring a secret that she will do anything to keep lest she lose her granddaughter’s love.