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The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
the inspiring and uplifting new novel from international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
By: Holly Ringland
eBook | 1 October 2022
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From international bestselling author, Holly Ringland, comes a haunting and enchanting novel about exile and belonging, and how allowing ourselves to feel joy amidst grief can be our most powerful acts of transformation and homecoming.
Aura Wilding is gone forever, and no one knows why. Her family is irrevocably broken - until Esther, Aura's sister, decides to travel from their home in Tasmania to Denmark, and then to the Faroe Islands, to seek out the truth.
In her early twenties Aura had left Tasmania to study Scandinavian folklore in Copenhagen. After losing touch with her family for nearly two years, she suddenly returned home, withdrawn and agitated. Weeks later, she died. With the family still mourning, Esther promises her mother, Liv, that she'll find out what happened to Aura. Driven by desperation and hope, Esther follows the trail of her sister's stories - those she wrote and those she wore on her skin. First to Copenhagen, then to the islands of their ancestors - and, finally, to Aura's secret.
The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding is a haunting and enchanting novel about the love between sisters, about home, exile and belonging. It is also about women reclaiming their bodies, resisting oppressive power, and marking themselves through choice. Most importantly, though, it is about how allowing ourselves to feel joy amidst grief can be our most powerful acts of transformation and homecoming.
About the AuthorHolly Ringland is the author of the international bestseller The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, which has been translated into 31 languages and is being adapted into a seven-part TV series starring Sigourney Weaver and produced by Amazon Prime and Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories. It will screen in more than 240 countries and territories in 2023. In 2019, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart won the Australian Book Industry Award General Fiction Book of the Year. In 2021, Holly co-hosted an eight-episode ABC TV series, Back to Nature, alongside Aaron Pedersen. After living between Australia and the UK for ten years, Holly has been based in the hinterland of Queensland since 2020, where she wrote The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding in her 'office', a vintage caravan named Frenchie.
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ISBN: 9781460713013
ISBN-10: 146071301X
Published: 1st October 2022
Format: ePUB
Language: English
Publisher: 4th Estate