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THE SEVEN SKINS OF ESTHER WILDING, by Holly Ringland (Harper-Collins, $34.99)

The new novel from Australian Holly Ringland, author of the international bestseller The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, concerns Esther (Starry) Wilding a year after her beloved older sister, Aura, apparently walked into the ocean.

Aura and Esther had a happy childhood in Tasmania, but since Aura’s disappearance, Esther’s life has gone off the rails: she’s a dishwasher working at a holiday resort who’s getting a reputation for drinking too much and sleeping around, a far cry from the

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