num_pages: 18
description: From international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart Holly Ringland comes a haunting and magical novel about joy grief courage and transformation. '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.
language: English
title: The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
publisher: HarperCollins