The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding: the inspiring and uplifting new novel from in

Description: The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding by Holly Ringland From international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Holly Ringland, comes a haunting and magical novel about joy, grief, courage, and transformation. On the afternoon that Esther Wilding drove homeward along the coast, a year after her sister had walked into the sea and disappeared, the light was painfully golden.The last time Esther Wildings beloved older sister Aura was seen, she was walking along the shore towards the sea. In the wake of Auras disappearance, Esthers family struggles to live with their loss. To seek the truth about her sisters death, Esther reluctantly travels from Lutruwita, Tasmania to Copenhagen, and then to the Faroe Islands, following the trail of 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.Myths and legends are the touchstone to truth in this epic journey through love, loss, courage and kinship. But The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding is also an elegant and mesmerising tribute to the places that hold our stories, heart and memories. Holly Ringland writes with such tenderness, wit and imagination about all these things that its impossible to come away from this magical story unchanged Sally Piper, author of Bone MemoriesVivid and soaring ... The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding is a haunting story of trauma and redemption that is nonetheless compelling and accessible. Its a great recommendation for fans of Vanessa Diffenbaughs The Language of Flowers or Elizabeth Gilberts The Signature of All Things, as well as Ringlands debut The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart Books+PublishingLike the best books, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding is ultimately a story about love. Ringland is a virtuoso of fairytale storytelling for adults. Sydney Morning HeraldA mythological journey as much as an unfolding mystery, full of symbols ... a magical, witchy, quirky, luminous book, full of the natural world, the night sky and the ever-changing water around the islands on which it is set. The AustralianAnother spell is cast by Holly Ringland. I was swept away by this triumphant and luminous story Myfanwy Jones, Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlisted author for LeapNobody writes about the pain of being alive more deftly than Holly Ringland. She brings such empathy to the topics of grief, love, family conflict and loss. Some of her sentences took my breath away, and I found myself madly flicking pages, days later, to find them again for safekeeping. Astonishing in its scope, detail and sensitivity, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding is tender, magical, epic, funny and devastating. This is a very special writer at her best - Kate Leaver, author of The Friendship Cure FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Holly Ringland is the author of the international bestseller The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, which has been translated into thirty languages and adapted into a global seven-part TV series starring Sigourney Weaver and produced by Amazon Prime Video and Made Up Stories. 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, with Aaron Pedersen. After living between Australia and the UK for ten years, Holly has been based in the Yugambeh region of southeast Queensland since 2020, where she wrote The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding in her office, a vintage caravan named Frenchie. Upon publication, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding became an instant national bestseller, and it was named 2022 Book of the Year by Booktopia. Review Esther Wilding grows up in the shadow of her older sister Aura. When the once-sparkling Aura returns from Copenhagen hollowed out by life, and walks into the sea to her death, her family is torn to pieces. Esther, the little sister used to trailing around after Aura, runs from her grief and her community. But when Esther discovers a journal filled with cryptic lines of text and fairytale artwork, she reluctantly travels to Copenhagen to try to piece together her sisters life. Nordic fairytales, myths and artwork suffuse Holly Ringlands second novel, creating webs of symbolism and meaning. Ringlands depictions of Denmark are vivid and soaring, the setting a fitting home for her emotional and dark plotlines, while her Tasmanian landscapes are equally evocative. The story is full of fraught family dynamics and the love and rivalry of sibling relationships. Flashbacks are scattered throughout, giving glimpses of Esther and Auras childhood as Esther pulls the past into focus, finally seeing what was there all along. The mysterious journal provides a narrative framework as the reader is drawn along on Esthers journey through her own stages of grief into reckoning, and to finally learning the truth about her sister. *The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding* is a haunting story of trauma and redemption that is nonetheless compelling and accessible. Its a great recommendation for fans of Vanessa Diffenbaughs *The Language of Flowers *or Elizabeth Gilberts *The Signature of All Things*, as well as Ringlands debut *The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart*. *FayHelfenbaumis a freelance writer and editor and was a bookseller for five years.* Details ISBN1460759370 Author Holly Ringland Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1460759370 ISBN-13 9781460759370 Format Paperback Place of Publication New South Wales Country of Publication Australia Subtitle the inspiring and uplifting new novel from international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart Pages 560 Publisher HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd Publication Date 2022-09-30 Imprint HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd Alternative 9781460740583 Audience General NZ Release Date 2022-09-29 AU Release Date 2022-09-30 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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