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HOLLY’S NEW BOOK IS HERE
An uplifting, powerful and inspiring book about breaking through fear and finding joy through creativity.
The House that Joy Built is about the pleasure and power of giving ourselves permission to create, and is for anyone who struggles with fear to make the art that calls to their heart.
“A joyous gift from the heart, practical and wise. Blasts those I-can’t-do-this terrors with both barrels.”
“Thank you Holly for bringing even more magic into the world!”
“A non-fiction masterpiece… encourages readers to reflect on their fears and grant themselves permission to create and feel joy… you’ll find sanctuary in this book.”
“What a gutsy and raw book, written with (Holly’s) beautiful creative voice. ”
“I may have sobbed a few times reading Joy… honestly - it’s so beautiful.”
MEET HOLLY
HOLLY RINGLAND IS A WRITER, STORYTELLER, AND TELEVISION PRESENTER
Her internationally bestselling debut novel, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, has been published in 30 territories.
In 2023, a seven-episode TV series adaptation of the same name streamed globally on Prime Video, starring Sigourney Weaver. The series broke records with the biggest opening weekend viewership globally for any Australian launch. It has reached the top five in 78 countries, and top 3 in 42 countries.
Holly’s second novel, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding, was published in Australia and New Zealand in 2022 and became an instant bestseller. Booktopia named it their 2022 Book of the Year. It’s published in the UK and Finland, Canada, and the US. Further international publication is to follow.
Holly’s latest book, The House That Joy Built, was published in ANZ in October 2023 and is a collection of essays - part-memoir, part-research, and part-storytelling - about the pleasure and power of giving ourselves permission to create.
Apple Book Reviews call it a non-fiction masterpiece.
Two of Holly’s favourite reader responses describe reading The House That Joy Built as:
A tiny jar of sunshine in my back pocket reminding me that creativity can be good…wonderful…light…brilliant, and most importantly, that I can be all of those things too.
I’m only a few pages in and already getting my arse handed to me.
In 2021 Holly co-hosted the factual ABC TV series, Back To Nature which aired to critical acclaim.
BOOKTOPIA’S
2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR
“It’s impossible to come away from this magical story unchanged.’”
A haunting and magical novel about joy, grief, courage, and transformation.
The last time Esther Wilding's beloved older sister Aura was seen, she was walking along the shore towards the sea. In the wake of Aura's disappearance, Esther's family struggles to live with their loss. To seek the truth about her sister's death, Esther reluctantly travels from Lutruwita/Tasmania to Copenhagen, and then to the Faroe Islands. On her journey, Esther is guided by the stories Aura left behind: seven fairy tales about selkies, swans and women, alongside cryptic verses Aura wrote and had secretly tattooed on her body.
The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding is a sweeping, deeply beautiful and profoundly moving novel about the far-reaches of sisterly love, the power of wearing your heart on your skin, and the ways life can transform when we find the courage to feel the fullness of both grief and joy.
“This intercontinental journey into joy, grief, nature and magic confirms Holly Ringland as one of Australia’s most precious, life-changing storytellers.”
“Vivid and soaring … a haunting story of trauma and redemption...”
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
An enchanting and captivating novel about how our untold stories haunt us — and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.
After her family suffers a tragedy, nine-year-old Alice Hart is forced to leave her idyllic seaside home. She is taken in by her grandmother, June, a flower farmer who raises Alice on the language of Australian native flowers, a way to say the things that are too hard to speak.
Under the watchful eye of June and the women who run the farm, Alice settles, but grows up increasingly frustrated by how little she knows of her family's story. In her early twenties, Alice's life is thrown into upheaval again when she suffers devastating betrayal and loss. Desperate to outrun grief, Alice flees to the dramatically beautiful central Australian desert. In this otherworldly landscape Alice thinks she has found solace, until she meets a charismatic and ultimately dangerous man.
Spanning two decades, set between sugar cane fields by the sea, a native Australian flower farm, and a celestial crater in the central desert, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart follows Alice's unforgettable journey, as she learns that the most powerful story she will ever possess is her own.
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“...entertaining, moving, and vividly atmospheric...”
“...hypnotic... draws you into a satisfying drama that resonates long after the closing credits.”
