The Secrets of Flowers

Author: Sally Page Listening Length: 10h 7m

From the author of the phenomenal internationally bestselling The Keeper of Stories, The Secrets of Flowers is a heart-warming novel about a grieving woman who rediscovers herself by uncovering the lost story of the girl who arranged flowers on the Titanic. The smallest treasures can hold the biggest mysteries … One y...

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Frangipani

The time passes like the weather. Sometimes it races like a great North Easterly– the blast of harsh early mornings the prelude to days of rushing and carrying. Other times, the hours seem to hang like a still, grey day. The work is slower, but the passengers’ demands are never-ending, like the vast sky that sweeps above them. Then there are a few precious times when the weather is perfect and the languorous days are there to be stepped into like a warm bath. She remembers when her first ship arrived in the West Indies and the Big Barbadian took her to meet his family. They sat at a long table by the beach, the air rich with a fragrance his mother told her was from the frangipani flower. They ate food she had never dreamt of and drank a heady, caramel punch that gave her dreams of home.

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