- Title:
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The Hope Flower
- Written by:
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Joy Dettman
- Read by:
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Deidre Rubenstein
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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13
- Duration:
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15 hours 19 minutes
- Published:
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March 30 2021
- Available Date:
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March 30 2021
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781867533023
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; Family Sagas; Sagas
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Macmillan Australia
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The Hope Flower is another tale from award-wining author, Joy Dettman.
Lori Smyth-Owen isn't your average teenager – as you'd expect from the only girl in a family of 12. Or they were a family, until their father took his own life to escape his bed-bound wife, too obese to leave her room.
But for Lori and the remaining brothers, there is no escape from their volatile, mentally unstable mother. They raise themselves away from the gaze of the authorities, realising that though abandoned, they are now in charge. They can control everything, including their mother's food intake.
In time, their mother emerges, after losing two-thirds of her body weight. But does she bring with her the seed of hope for a better future, or will all hell break loose?
'Dettman writes compulsively readable stories.'
The Age
'Dettman is an effortless, assured and accessible storyteller ...'
The Saturday Age