The title of the new Amazon offering “The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart,” with its echo of V.C.
Andrews’s Gothic novels of family calamity, is a case of truth in advertising.
“Lost Flowers” is a reminder that when it is handled with skill, sophistication and a measure of restraint, melodrama can be as satisfying as any other style of storytelling.
June is one pole of a story in which the keeping of shameful family secrets is the foundation of tragedy.
The other pole is Alice, who is a child when we first see her (played by Alyla Browne) and knows nothing about June, her grandmother.
Persons:
Alice Hart, Holly Ringland, Sigourney Weaver, Leah Purcell, Frankie Adams, Alice, Alyla Browne, Savage
Locations:
Thornhill, June’s