**The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh is a moving story of hope and forgiveness, and an international bestseller./b>b>/b>The Victorians used flowers to express emotions: honeysuckle for devotion, azaleas for passion, and red roses for love. For Victoria Jones, flowers and their meanings are her only connection to the world - although for her, they are most useful in expressing feelings such as grief, mistrust and solitude. After a childhood in the foster care system, Victoria - now eighteen - has nowhere to go, and sleeps in a public park, where she plants a small garden of her own. When her talent is discovered by a local florist, she discovers her gift for helping others through the flowers she chooses for them. But it takes a meeting with a mysterious vendor at the flower market for her to realize what's been missing in her own life. As she starts to fall for him, though, she must confront a painful secret from her past - and decide whether it's worth risking everything for a second chance at happiness.

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A heartbreaking and redemptive novel about the meaning of flowers and what it means to love.

Autorentext

Vanessa Diffenbaugh was born in San Francisco and raised in Chico, California. After studying creative writing and education at Stanford, she went on to teach art and writing to youth in low-income communities. Vanessa and her family live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where her husband is studying urban school reform at Harvard. Her first novel, The Language of Flowers, was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller.

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Victoria Jones finds it hard to talk about her feelings. Growing up in foster care, moving from family to family, nobody ever taught her how. Then she learnt about the language of flowers, and finally found a way to express the emotions that had built within her: grief, anger, mistrust.
Now eighteen, and surviving as best she can on her own, Victoria persuades a local florist to take her on, and soon discovers her gift for helping others through the flowers she chooses for them.
But when she falls for a man who knows as much about the language of flowers as she does, Victoria realises she must find her own words - and a way to confront a painful secret from her past - if she's ever to have a second chance at happiness.
'Captivating' Woman & Home
'Beautiful and absorbing' Heat
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Zusammenfassung
A heartbreaking and redemptive novel about the meaning of flowers and what it means to love.