The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

From international bestselling author, Holly Ringland, comes a haunting and enchanting novel about exile and belonging, and how allowing ourselves to feel joy amidst grief can be our most powerful acts of transformation and homecoming. Aura Wilding is gone forever, and no one knows why. Her family is irrevocably broken - until Esther, Aura's sister, decides to travel from their home in Tasmania to Denmark, and then to the Faroe Islands, to seek out the truth. In her early twenties Aura had left Tasmania to study Scandinavian folklore in Copenhagen. After losing touch with her family for nearly two years, she suddenly returned home, withdrawn and agitated. Weeks later, she died. With the family still mourning, Esther promises her mother, Liv, that she'll find out what happened to Aura. Driven by desperation and hope, Esther follows the trail of her sister's stories - those she wrote and those she wore on her skin. First to Copenhagen, then to the islands of their ancestors - and, finally, to Aura's secret. The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding is a haunting and enchanting novel about the love between sisters, about home, exile and belonging. It is also about women reclaiming their bodies, resisting oppressive power, and marking themselves through choice. Most importantly, though, it is about how allowing ourselves to feel joy amidst grief can be our most powerful acts of transformation and homecoming.