Holly Ringland: The World Beneath Her Feet

An Unmissable Literary Event with Holly Ringland

Join us at the stunning Lerida Estate Winery for an unforgettable afternoon with acclaimed bestselling author Holly Ringland as she celebrates the launch of her highly anticipated new novel, The World Beneath Her Feet.

In conversation with Bookish Bron, Holly will share the inspiration behind her most personal novel yet - a luminous and deeply moving story about memory, belonging, love, and the landscapes that shape us.

From the beloved author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart and The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding comes a breathtaking new work that showcases Ringland’s signature lyrical storytelling, rich emotional depth, and vivid connection to the natural world. Blending nature, music, art, and the beauty of the Australian landscape, The World Beneath Her Feet is an immersive novel that will captivate readers from the very first page.

At the heart of the story is Maggie Byrd, a woman who appears to have built the perfect life in London. Working among fossils and precious gems at the Natural History Museum and sharing her home with the two people she loves most, Maggie seems content. But beneath the surface lies a painful past she has spent years trying to forget. When she unexpectedly inherits her beloved uncle’s rewilded property in a lush valley of southeast Queensland, the life she has carefully constructed begins to unravel, forcing her to confront the memories, losses, and truths she left behind.

Set against a backdrop of extraordinary landscapes and profound emotional discovery, The World Beneath Her Feet is a powerful exploration of home, identity, and the enduring pull of the places that live within us.

Book now and be among the first to hear Holly discuss this remarkable new novel in the beautiful surrounds of Lerida Estate Winery.

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. In 2021, Holly co-hosted an eight-episode ABC TV series, Back to Nature, with Aaron Pedersen. After living between Australia and the UK for ten years, Holly has been based in the Yugambeh/Bundjalung regions of southeast Queensland since 2020, where she wrote her second novel, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding, in her ‘office’, a vintage caravan named Frenchie. Upon publication, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding became an instant national bestseller, and it was named Booktopia’s 2022 Book of the Year. In 2023, Holly published her first non-fiction book, the national bestseller The House That Joy Built, about the essential power of creativity, something she continues to write about in her beloved and bestselling Substack The Joy Rise.

Bron Swasbrick is a lifelong booklover, reader, and reviewer, who has been talking about books online for about a decade and gets especially excited about Australian writers and their stories. You can find Bron discussing her latest and most favourite reads on Instagram @bookishbron and on her website BookishBron.com