The World Beneath Her Feet
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Pub Date Mar 9 2027 | Archive Date Feb 1 2027
House of Anansi Press Inc. | Anansi International
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Description
The new heartwarming novel from the bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart and The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
In her late thirties, Maggie Byrd lives a charmed life in London. She works with fossils and gems at the Natural History Museum and shares a home with the two people she loves most: 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. But 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.
In the nineties, this wild, vivid place shaped Maggie when she was an angry, lost teenager. It was her home and sanctuary, where she experienced the intoxicating powers and limitations of friendship, first love, desire and loyalty – until she betrayed everyone she loved there and fled. When the same land that Maggie turned her back on comes into her care, she is forced to face what we all cannot bury, abandon or forget.
From the international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart and The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding comes a luminous, deeply emotional and utterly absorbing novel about belonging, memory and the loves and landscapes that make us – and what it takes to come home to ourselves and each other. The World Beneath Her Feet is immersive Australian storytelling at its finest.
Advance Praise
✨Praise for THE LOST FLOWERS OF ALICE HART ✨
Winner of the ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year and Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award
“Ringland’s storytelling is driven by an undimmed sense of wonder at the darkness and light, the damage and love in people. It makes for a determined investigation of abuse and survival accomplished with profound sensitivity.”
— Sydney Morning Herald
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“Holly Ringland is a gifted, natural storyteller and her novel — about finding magic in the dark; about the power of freedom and the freedom of story — is truly a light-giving, tender thing.”
— Brooke Davis, author of international bestseller Lost & Found, winner of 2015 ABIA Fiction Book of the Year
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“There’s an aching heart beating through Holly Ringland’s narrative that although at times seems almost broken, is stitched back together with shards of optimism that offer constant hope. These are characters we love, care about, and want to nurture ... A vivid and brave tale of love, loss, and inner power.”
— Australian Women’s Weekly
✨Praise for THE SEVEN SKINS OF ESTHER WILDING✨
“Another spell is cast by Holly Ringland. I was swept away by this triumphant and luminous story.”
— Myfanwy Jones, Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlisted author for Leap
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“Myths and legends are the touchstone to truth in this epic journey through love, loss, courage, and kinship. But The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding is also an elegant and mesmerising tribute to the places that hold our stories, heart, and memories. Holly Ringland writes with such tenderness, wit, and imagination about all these things that it’s impossible to come away from this magical story unchanged.”
— Sally Piper, author of Bone Memories
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“A tribute to messy, uncontrollable grief, of making terrible decisions and hurting those around you in your pain, and getting to apologize and think about what healing might look like.”
— The Miramichi Reader
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781487015237 |
| PRICE | $19.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 528 |