Dymocks Luncheon for Holly Ringland

From the author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart and The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding comes an absorbing novel about memory, belonging and the loves and landscapes that make us. With Ringland’s signature lyrical prose, evocative depictions of the natural world and her ability to layer humour and darkness, The World Beneath Her Feet is Ringland’s most personal novel yet.

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 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.

Holly will be in-conversation with Michaela Kalowski