Recently we’ve been talking quite a bit about Vanessa Diffenbaugh’s debut novel, The Language of Flowers. Chloe gave it a rave review just over a week ago, we’ve talked about the book covers both in the US/UK as well as around the world and now there’s a new book trailer. I’m also planning to share my review in the next couple of weeks, but I thought that in the meantime the new trailer would be a nice medium to share some of Vanessa’s more personal experiences relating to the book with our readers. The trailer is quite beautiful, as is her website, so I hope you enjoy and hopefully it will have you running to your nearest book store to pick up The Language of Flowers.

The Victorian language 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, mistrust and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings. Now eighteen, Victoria has nowhere to go, and sleeps in a public park, where she plants a small garden of her own. When her talent is discovered by a local florist, she discovers her gift for helping others through the flowers she chooses for them. But it takes meeting a mysterious vendor at the flower market for her to realise what’s been missing in her own life, and as she starts to fall 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 the meaning of love.

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