Meet Holly Ringland, the author of the internationally best-selling novels, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart and The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding. Holly talks about her latest non-fiction work, The House That Joy Built, an open-hearted clarion call to experience the joy and freedom of creativity and lean into your imagination. In conversation with Michaela Kalowski.
Holly Ringland is the Queensland-based author of the international bestseller, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, which won the ABIA Award for General Fiction Book of the Year in 2019 and was adapted into a TV series. She is also the author of the bestselling The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding. Holly also co-hosted Back to Nature, an eight-episode ABC TV series made in 2021.
Michaela Kalowski is an interviewer, moderator and curator for ideas and writers festivals. She's interviewed the likes of Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell and Stan Grant. She's conducted interviews and presented programs across ABC radio, curates the annual on air writers festival, Big Weekend of Books, and recently co-wrote/co-presented the podcast Laya's Way Home for ABC Radio National.
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