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 territories. In 2019, it won the Australian Book Industry Award General Fiction Book of the Year. In 2023, a 7-episode TV series adaptation of the same name streamed globally on Prime Video, 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.
Holly’s second novel, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding, was published in 2022 and became an instant national bestseller. Booktopia named it their 2022 Book of the Year. It will be published in 15 territories with further deals to follow. In 2024, Holly did a two-month book tour of the Canadian and US West Coast for Esther Wilding in collaboration with independent bookstores and community bookclubs, which was a career highlight.
Holly’s latest book, The House That Joy Built, is her first non-fiction title and has become a national bestseller. Published in 2023, it's part-memoir, part-research, and part-storytelling about the pleasure and power of giving ourselves permission to create. Readers have called it "life-changing". Apple Book Reviews called it a “non-fiction masterpiece”.
In 2021, along with Aaron Pedersen, Holly co-hosted the factual ABC TV series, Back To Nature, which aired to critical acclaim.
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
