Taken away from the Strathmore Bowls Club. What a find, I loved The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, so hope this new book by Holly Ringland is just as good. This is only the second copy registered on Bookcrossing.

A beautiful and moving story about dealing with grief on the loss of Esther’s beloved older sister.
When Aura disappeared by walking into the sea, the lives of her parents and her only sister fell apart. They all needed answers and Esther was reluctantly encouraged to travel to Copenhagen to try to find out what had happened to Aura there before coming home a different person.
Lots of emphasis on the telling of stories, both through their indigenous connections and their Danish and Celtic origins. The author researched these areas well.
The discovery of Aura’s teenage journal, the telling of the seven fairytales depicted on sculptures and the the seven tattoos on Aura’s back led Esther to the discovery of Aura’s troubled life and helped her to come to terms with her death.
Sensitively written and based in Tasmania, Copenhagen and the remote Faroe Islands, the book was almost mystical in the telling of the story through the ancient stories.

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I recently read “The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart”, which I enjoyed. I have seen this book around but didn’t realise it was by the same author. I am curious to see how it compares to The Lost Flowers

Esther Wilding is on the way home to attend her sister Aura’s memorial service, when a black swan falls from the sky and hits her ute. Already tense about having to attend her sister’s memorial and face her estranged parents, Esther can’t help but thing killing a swan is a bad omen, after all she and her were sisters of seal and swan skins.
This novel takes you on a journey with Esther from Tasmania, Copenhagen and the Faroe Islands as she tries to discover what made her sister walk into the sea.

I enjoyed this more than I did Holly Ringland’s first novel The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart. I liked the way the legends about the Selkies was woven into the story.

I will release this book at the Unconvention in Adelaide