TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dettman,Joy
TI  - The hope flower
SN  - 9781760984106
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Sydney, NSW
PB  - Macmillan by Pan Macmillan Australia
KW  - Dysfunctional families
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Eating disorders
KW  - Suicide
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - "Lori and her brothers can survive anything, even their mother" -- cover
N2  - Lori Smyth-Owen isn't your average teenager - as you'd expect from the only girl in a family of twelve. Or they were a family, until their father took his own life to escape his bed-bound wife, too obese to leave her room. But for Lori and the remaining brothers, there is no escape from their volatile, mentally unstable mother. They raise themselves away from the gaze of the authorities, realising that though abandoned, they are now in charge. They can control everything, including their mother's food intake. In time, their mother emerges, after losing two-thirds of her body weight. But does she bring with her the seed of hope for a better future, or will all hell break loose?. -- Publisher's website
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