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On the afternoon that Esther Wilding drove homeward along the coast a year after her sister had walked into the sea and disappeared the light was painfully golden.' The last time Esther Wilding's beloved older sister Aura was seen she was walking along the shore towards the sea. In the wake of Aura's disappearance Esther's family struggles to live with their loss. To seek the truth about her sister's death Esther reluctantly travels from Lutruwita Tasmania to Copenhagen and then to the Faroe Islands following the trail of the stories Aura left behind: seven fairy tales about selkies swans and women alongside cryptic verses Aura wrote and had secretly tattooed on her body. The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding is a sweeping deeply beautiful and profoundly moving novel about the far-reaches of sisterly love the power of wearing your heart on your skin and the ways life can transform when we find the courage to feel the fullness of both grief and joy. 'Vivid and soaring ... The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding is a haunting story of trauma and redemption that is nonetheless compelling and accessible. It's a great recommendation for fans of Vanessa Diffenbaugh's The Language of Flowers or Elizabeth Gilbert's The Signature of All Things as well as Ringland's debut The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart' Books+Publishing 'Like the best books The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding is ultimately a story about love. Ringland is a virtuoso of fairytale storytelling for adults.' Sydney Morning Herald 'A mythological journey as much as an unfolding mystery full of symbols ... a magical witchy quirky luminous book full of the natural world the night sky and the ever-changing water around
Author: Holly Ringland
Harper Collins
Paperback
HC SEVEN SKINS OF ESTHER WILDING
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