The Language of Flowers
A young woman who aged out of foster care uses the Victorian language of flowers to communicate emotions she cannot express in words.
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On her eighteenth birthday Victoria Jones ages out of the San Francisco group home where she has spent the last decade and sleeps in a public park. A florist named Renata hires her on the strength of her instinct, and old Victorian flower meanings become her first real language.
The Language of Flowers was written by Vanessa Diffenbaugh and published in 2011. It was Diffenbaugh's debut novel and a New York Times bestseller.
Yes. The Language of Flowers follows an 18-year-old emerging from the foster care system. Vanessa Diffenbaugh has worked extensively with former foster youth and used proceeds from the book to fund the Camellia Network for foster youth aging out of the system.
The Language of Flowers is 338 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Language of Flowers takes most readers 5 to 7 hours to finish.
The Language of Flowers is a standalone novel by Vanessa Diffenbaugh, not part of a series.
The Language of Flowers is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
