about

Welcome.
My name is Holly Ringland.

I'm the author of
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart.

I believe in small acts of kindness, courage, and am an advocate of stories for change.

The award-winning, debut Australian novel sold in 29 territories around the world.

Latest News:

September 20, 2019

From the USA:
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
selected as a 2019 GREAT GROUP READ

For the past 10 years, the Women's National Book Association has chosen a Great Group Reads list made up of 20 novels and memoirs that are perfect for book club discussion. The list is curated from over 200 submissions, all by publishers, by a committee of readers from around the USA and is announced in conjunction with National Reading Group Month.

To read the full list please click here.

May 2, 2019

From Australia:
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart WINS the
Australian Book Industry Awards
GENERAL FICTION
BOOK OF THE YEAR

October 12, 2018

From Hollywood:
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
is optioned for screen
by Bruna Papandrea's
Made Up Stories

The Lost Flowers
of Alice Hart

is currently published in:

Australia & New Zealand by HarperCollins
Canada & USA by House of Anansi
UK & Commonwealth by Pan Macmillan
Italy by Garzanti
Netherlands by Luitingh-Sijthoff
Poland by Marginesy
Portugal by Porto Editora
Israel by Tchelet Steimatzky
Serbia by Vulkan
Slovakia by Vydavatel'stvo Fortuna Libri
Turkey by Yabancı Yayınları
France by Mazarine
Croatia by Znanje
Catalonia by Ediçions 62
Spain and Latin America by Salamandra
Hungary by Alexandra Kiadó
Germany by Random House
China by Citic Press
Japan by Shueisha

Forthcoming publication:

Sweden (coming October 30, 2019 Sekwa)
Norway (coming November 1, 2019 Strawberry Publishing)
Czech Republic (coming November 2019 JOTA)
Russia (AST/Janri)
Lithuania (Baltoslanko)
Romania (Humanitas)
Greece (Enalios)
Bulgaria (Colibri)
Slovenia (Učila).

Additional deals to be announced.

The third-person story:

HOLLY RINGLAND grew up barefoot and wild in her mother's tropical garden on the east coast of Australia. When she was nine years old, her love of landscapes, cultures and stories was deepened by a two-year journey her family took in North America, living in a camper van and travelling from one national park to another. In her early twenties, Holly worked for four years in a remote Indigenous community in Australia’s western desert, where she was the Senior Media ranger at Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. Moving to England in 2009, Holly obtained her MA in Creative Writing from the University of Manchester in 2011. After wanting to be a writer since she was three years old, Holly’s debut novel The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart was published in 2018 when she was 37 years old, and has since become an international bestseller. Publication rights have sold in 28 territories and a television series adaptation is forthcoming from Bruna Papandrea's production company Made Up Stories. In May 2019, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart won The Australian Book Industry Award General Fiction Book of the Year. Holly now lives between Australia and the UK; she has Australian native flowers growing in both places.

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Welcome.My name is Holly Ringland.

I'm the author of​The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart.