Over the past two years, a gifted writer, Mitra Johnson, has struggled to write her dream novel - an epic novel about truth, love and beauty. When she returns from Brooklyn to Melbourne to attend the extravagant wedding of her childhood friend Rana, she has two daunting problems: her husband has left her, and due to severe writer's block,not a page of her dreambook is completed. In Melbourne, Mitra is swept up into the world of Noosha, her Iranian mother, and the women who work for her. Noosha owns Alley of Scented Roses, a bustling and cheerful flower shop and rose garden in Dandenong. She is experimenting to find the perfect recipe for a distincitive Persian rose attar. Mitra is drawn into a renewed friendship with Rana. She becomes embroiled in a scandalous plot to rescue Rana from an unwanted marriage by altering the fate of her pretentious Persian wedding. Soon, Mitra allows herself to open up again to her writing and marriage. In a renewed flow of creativity, she manisfests a novel, not the one she had dreamed of, but the lyrical, allusive Alley of Scented Roses.
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