Language of Flowers, The: A Novel
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781299081512 (1299081517)
Publish date: January 1st 2011
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Edition language: English
Book: The Language of Flowers Author: Vanessa Diffenbaugh Genre: Fiction/Family/Meaning of Love Summary: Acacia for secret love, daffodil for new beginnings, wisteria for welcome, and camellia for my destiny is in your hands. In Victorian times, the language of flowers was used to convey roman...
Earlier in the year, I read ‘The Little Paris Bookshop’ (Nina George) in which a bookseller dispenses books from his literary apothecary to treat each reader’s malady and/or melancholy – a book which I enjoyed. In ‘The Language of Flowers’, flora is used as the tool of communication. Each flower and...
This was a great debut novel about connections, love and second chances. Victoria Jones is a recently emancipated young woman who grew up in foster care system. She sees the world through hate and mistrust but finds that she has the gift to use the language of flowers to help others relationships g...
This is another Amazon recommendation, and they are beginning to make a believer out of me. Certainly, I knew some flowers had certain meanings, but I was completely ignorant of the Victorian penchant for conveying coded messages in the guise of sending flowers, and when I saw Vanessa Diffenbaugh ha...
4.5 star readThis is one of those rare books that simply gets better with each reading.
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