MEET HOLLY
HOLLY RINGLAND IS A WRITER, STORYTELLER, AND TV PRESENTER
Her award-winning, internationally bestselling debut novel, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, has been published in 30 countries/territories and is streaming globally now as a seven-part series on Amazon Prime, 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.
The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding, Holly’s second novel, was published in October 2022 and became an instant national bestseller in Australia and New Zealand.
It was named Booktopia’s 2022 Book of the Year, and has been voted by readers into Dymocks’ Top 101 Books, and the Better Reading Top 100 Books for 2023.
The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding will be published in more than 15 territories globally with further deals to be announced.
Throughout 2020, Holly travelled Australia to film Back To Nature, a visually stunning 8-episode series she co-hosted with Aaron Pedersen. Back To Nature aired to critical acclaim on ABC TV in 2021. All episodes are now streaming on ABC iView.
In May 2019, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart won The Australian Book Industry Award General Fiction Book of the Year.
Prior to the pandemic, Holly divided her time between Australia and the UK, where she had Australian native flowers growing in both places. In 2020 she bought a 1968 Olympic Riviera caravan, named ‘Frenchie’, her Plan B writing office based on Yugambeh land, southeast Queensland, in which Holly wrote Esther Wilding’s story.
Holly’s new book The House That Joy Built is about fear, joy and creativity. It’s out now in Australia and New Zealand. APPLE BOOKS call it a ‘non-fiction masterpiece’.
REVIEWS
“Holly Ringland is a gifted, natural story-teller and her novel is truly a light-giving, tender thing. A vivid, compelling, utterly moving debut.”
— Brooke Davis, author of Lost & Found.
“Holly Ringland is one of those writers who takes your breath away. Timeless, enchanting, and powerful.”
— Kate Leaver, author of The Friendship Cure.
“Ringland's storytelling is driven by an undimmed sense of wonder at the darkness and light, the damage and love in people.”
— Helen Sullivan, Sydney Morning Herald
“Holly's writing is rich, vibrant and alive with the messy, sometimes violent song of human connection.”
— Jenn Ashworth, author of Fell
THE JOY RISE is a space for the burning questions that you might want to ask Holly about writing, fear, joy, courage, stories, daydreaming, inspiration and creativity.
Holly will answer questions here and in her newsletter, which you can subscribe to in the footer of every page on this website.
