Meet an Author: Holly Ringland

Spend an evening with Holly Ringland as she introduces her highly anticipated new novel, The World Beneath Her Feet — a luminous, deeply emotional, and utterly absorbing novel about belonging, memory, and the loves and landscapes that make us.

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. However, beneath this carefully constructed facade 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. 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.

Holly Ringland is the author of two internationally best-selling and multi-award-winning novels, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart and The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding, and one nationally bestselling work of non-fiction, The House That Joy Built. In 2023, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart was adapted into an award-winning Amazon Original television series, starring Sigourney Weaver. She also writes a beloved and bestselling Substack, The Joy Rise, on the intersection of creativity and connection.

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Getting there

Broadbeach Library is a 10 minute walk from the Broadbeach South tram station. Consider using public transport or active travel. Plan your trip with the Translink journey planner.

Parking at the library is limited to 2 hours between 8am and 5pm. Additional parking is available at Pacific Fair Shopping Centre, directly across the road.