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The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald chronicles the early life of Friedrich von Hardenberg, later known as the Romantic poet Novalis, as he navigates his education, his father's expectations, and his deep, inexplicable love for twelve-year-old Sophie von Kühn and the symbolic blue flower he writes about, which becomes a central motif in his life and work. The book features the deaths of key characters and the protagonist's battle with terminal illness.