Like flowers growing out of cement cracks is set in the privacy of Rose Wood, an elegant family country house rooted in past grounds bordered by walls of trees.
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The poetic prose is associated with curated illustrations from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, drawn from varied sources such as calligraphic manuscripts, natural history, arsenical wallpapers, the art of the mentally ill, cosmic figures, or magic and astrology.
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In a long stream of consciousness, voices, recalled dreams and childhood memories flowing out of the walls in music merge and morph into each other as the narrator, an unnamed woman about to give birth, unravels the story of a mysterious loss.