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Holly Ringland - The World Beneath Her Feet

In Conversation with Brooke Davis

From the author of 'The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart' and 'The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding' comes a luminous novel about memory, belonging and the loves and landscapes that make us.

When the novel opens, Maggie Byrd is in her late thirties and living a charmed life in London. She works with fossils and gems at the Natural History Museum and shares a home with the two people she loves most: her best friend, Harriet, and her partner, Joe. However, beneath this carefully constructed façade lies a past Maggie buried deep inside herself and resolved never to unearth: the story of a guilt-ridden, heartbroken girl who left Australia in her early twenties and swore never to return. When she learns that she's inherited her beloved uncle's rewilded land in a lush valley of southeast Queensland, Maggie's London life begins to fracture.

About the author:

Holly Ringland is a writer, storyteller and TV presenter whose books have sold over 600,000 copies globally and been published in 30 international territories. Ringland’s 2018 debut novel, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart won the Australian Book Industry Award General Fiction Book of the Year and was adapted into a smash-hit seven-part TV series starring Sigourney Weaver.

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Image credit: Holly Bobbins

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