A Victorian Flower Dictionary: The Language of Flowers Companion Kindle Edition

A Victorian Flower Dictionary: The Language of Flowers Companion Kindle Edition
Author: Visit ‘s Mandy Kirkby Page ID: B0054KO4XK

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File Size: 2531 KBPrint Length: 187 pagesPublisher: Ballantine Books (September 20, 2011)Publication Date: September 20, 2011 Sold by: Random House LLC Language: EnglishID: B0054KO4XKText-to-Speech: Enabled X-Ray: Not Enabled Word Wise: Not EnabledLending: Not Enabled Enhanced Typesetting: Not Enabled Best Sellers Rank: #444,072 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store) #23 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Science > Biological Sciences > Plants > Flowers #31 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Crafts & Hobbies > Flower Arranging #58 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Gardening & Horticulture > Flowers
I recently finished reading Vanessa Diffenbaugh’s novel "The Language of Flowers." The plot is both complicated and simplistic: a young girl who has been raised in the foster care system is crippled emotionally by repeated rejections. She pronounces herself an unloveable throw-away that has little hope of sustaining any type of meaningful relationship. Her love of all things floral affords her the ability to use flowers to communicate in an almost metaphysical code that finds root within the hearts and desires of the men and women to whom she sells her blooms. Like Tilo in The Mistress of Spices: A Novel, Victoria understands what her patients need but cannot help herself. Throughout the story, she uses flowers to speak for her and eventually compiles a compendium of flower photographs with their meanings. In "A Victorian Flower Dictionary," Mandy Kirkby presents a book of fifty flowers, complete with colored drawings of each bloom, the emotion it is meant to convey and a blurb that includes information about the plant itself and its citations in literature. In an appendix, she includes Vanessa Diffenbaugh’s dictionary as compiled by Victoria, the fictional narrator of "The Language of Flowers." In as much as the book is nicely arranged as a sort of floral Wiki, I wonder how much of the language of flowers is subjective to the author of the dictionary.

In Samantha Gray’s volume of the same theme and purpose, "
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