Flowers In Her Hair

A year that changed Australia. A summer that changed her forever.

A girl who thought she knew herself-until the road showed her everything she’d forgotten to dream.

1970

Shy, sheltered seventeen-year-old Lisa Walters thinks her life is already mapped out-finish school, get a job, don’t make trouble. But trouble finds her anyway in the form of a sun-kissed surfer named David, a kombi full of wandering strangers, and a wild, irresistible girl with laughter like fireworks: Willow.

Drawn into the heart of a free-spirited tribe-Gypsy, Shelly, Shay, Ryder, Jindamurra-Lisa discovers a world of barefoot mornings, river swims, firelight songs, and a kind of love she never knew existed. A love that blurs lines. A love that frees her. A love that breaks her open in ways she never expected.

But the road is never still.

And the Summer of ’70 can’t last forever.

From the beat of the Byron surf to the quiet magic of the Uki Sanctuary, Flowers in Her Hair is a tender, nostalgic, deeply Australian coming-of-age story about first love, chosen family, identity, and the people who change us long after they’re gone.

Some places stay with you.

Some people become part of you.

And some summers never leave at all.