SARA WISEMAN as Helen Hartley & LEAH PURCELL as Sgt. Andie Whitford in High Country (2024) || 1x01 and 1x02.

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

June & Twig

Sigourney Weaver/June Hart bonus 😍

this was better for me than any superhero team getting together ever, even those that i love, this is the jewel of my heart, this would've made me cry, but i was already crying hard so i just continued. Thank you The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart.

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart wins Best Miniseries at the AACTA Awards 2024

Why episode 4 have to break my heart like that? I’m already in love with June and Twig 😭😭😭😭😭

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (2023)

The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson (2021) Leah Purcell

Trailer for High Country starring Leah Purcell

Just got done watching ep 1.6 of "The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart" and wow that episode was so good and also scary!!! They've done such a great job with this and all the actors are giving great performances. We got more of the secrets revealed and a huge cliffhanger for the final episode next week. Posting the rest behind a cut for major book and show spoilers.

Everything with Alice realizing how Dylan really is was so hard to watch and I knew it was coming from the book. That was so scary and much more of it was shown than the scenes when she was young with Clem. Shows how sadly abuse survivors can still end up in relationships similar to what they experienced as a child or what their parents did. Then her still hiding from Twig when she showed up to find her and refusing to see her or go back, even though she should. Also great use of having Alice see Agnes during the ending of this episode and trying to figure out what to do.

Very happy we're getting more scenes of Twig too and her story as the book only lightly touched on it. It's been more fleshed out for the show and I teared up a few times hearing her talk about her missing kids that are adults out there somewhere. Then also how she ended up loving both Clem and Candy as her own children, and Alice as her granddaughter.

Then we got the big reveal about June's past and how much she went through. I can't imagine being forced to keep a pregnancy and raise that child after what happened and not even knowing who the baby's father was. Sadly it's starting to happen again here in the US since Roe v Wade got overturned. And then losing her first love Roberta because of it. It also shows why she treated her son the way she did and why she was afraid to keep Charlie as she was scared it was something inherited that turned Clem that way and Charlie might be too. Glad she has Candy and had Twig and explains so much of why she is the way she is.

Then this also shows why a lot of reviews of the book, including my own, say this does have you sympathize with Clem. It does not excuse what he did as a teenager and adult, but it shows the psychology of what a child that is a product of r*pe and then feels neglected by their mother can do. I don't blame June though and Twig was there to help, but really she should've gave Clem up for adoption. But at the same time a child being neglected like that does change their psychology and can be more influential to making them violent even without a possible inherited mental illness so you don't really know how he would've turned out if things were different.

It's just so tragic for everyone in this show but at the same time I know how the books ends and it's a story of overcoming and changing things. I won't spoil anymore but next week should be a great finale.

SARA WISEMAN as Helen Hartley & LEAH PURCELL as Sgt. Andie Whitford in High Country (2024) || 1x04

Sargent AU & Sargent UK

Shayda (2023) dir. Noora Niasari

leahpurcell So proud of our #TheLostFlowersOfAliceHart family! Taking home the @aacta Award for AACTA Award for Best Miniseries 💐 We poured our heart and soul into this series. Such an amazing team and powerful story by Holly Ringland 💖

Here are some red carpet BTS moments for you….

Angry Twig swinging axe is so so hot 🔥🔥🔥

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart Teaser Trailer

"When Alice, aged 9, tragically loses her parents in a mysterious fire, she is taken to live with her grandmother June at Thornfield flower farm, where she learns that there are secrets within secrets about her and her family’s past. ... Alice's journey as she grows from her complicated past builds to an emotional climax when she finds herself fighting for her life against a man she loves."

Based on the novel by Holly Ringland, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart stars Sigourney Weaver, Asher Keddie, Leah Purcell, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Frankie Adams, Charlie Vickers, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Alexander England, Sebastián Zurita, Alyla Browne, and Xavier Samuel. Glendyn Ivin serves as series director and Sarah Lambert serves as showrunner.

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart premieres on Prime Video on August 4, 2023.

Words on Fire: Leah Purcell (Wheeler Centre Gala Night of Storytelling, 2018)