The Language of Flowers

The Language of Flowers, Open market ed--------------------------------------------------This is the international bestseller: now in paperback. The Victorianlanguage of flowers was used to express emotions: honeysuckle for devotion,azaleas for passion, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones,it has been more useful in communicating feelings like grief, mistrustand solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster care system, sheis unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the worldis through flowers and their meanings. Now eighteen, Victoria has nowhereto go, and sleeps in a public park, where she plants a small gardenof her own. When her talent is discovered by a local florist, she discoversher gift for helping others through the flowers she chooses for them.But it takes meeting a mysterious vendor at the flower market for herto realise what's been missing in her own life, and as she starts tofall for him, she's forced to confront a painful secret from her past,and decide whether it's worth risking everything for a second chance" at happiness. "The Language of Flowers" is a heartbreaking and redemptive"novel about the meaning of flowers, the meaning of family, and themeaning of love.--------------------------------------------------Author Biography: Vanessa Diffenbaugh was born in San Francisco andraised in Chico, California. After studying creative writing and educationat Stanford, she went on to teach art and writing to youth in low-incomecommunities. She and her husband PK have three children: Tre'von, 18,Chela, 4, and Miles, 3. Tre'von, a former foster child, is attendingNew York University on a Gates Millenium Scholarship. Vanessa and herfamily currently live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where her husbandis studying urban school reform at Harvard.