Holly Ringland is the author of the international bestseller The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, which has been translated into thirty languages and adapted into a seven-part TV series starring Sigourney Weaver. In 2021, Holly cohosted a TV series, Back to Nature, aired on ABC TV in Australia. Holly is now based in the Yugambeh region of southeast Queensland, where she wrote her second novel, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding, another bestseller, in her "office," a vintage caravan named Frenchie. She also has a popular Substack newsletter, The Joy Rise. The House That Joy Built is her first nonfiction book.