Historical fiction novel Where the Wildflowers Grow by Terah Harris has hit the shelves
The story tackles Leigh, the sole survivor of a prison
transport bus crash, who finds refuge at a rural Alabama floral farm.
There she meets the farm’s owner, Jackson.
The two form a bond and he offers her small moments of
tenderness, encouraging her to face her own tragedies. However, Leigh learns
that she cannot easily bury the past and in order to heal she must face her
hidden secrets.
“Grief was the seed that grew Where the Wildflowers Grow,”
Terah said.
“In both of my previous books, grief has been quietly
present. I realised I’d been circling the topic without fully confronting it
because I wasn’t ready to sit with its messiest truths. So I decided to tackle
it head-on,” the author added.
The former librarian previously wrote One Summer in Savannah
(2023) and Long After We Are Gone (2024).
“I wanted to go deeper and peel back the layers of grief,
the discomfort, the confusion, the sorrow that doesn’t fit neatly into a box. I
wanted to give a voice to the parts that are often left unspoken. Grief isn’t
just about loss; it’s about the messiness of emotions that don’t have clear
boundaries,” she noted.
