"The world had changed. As far as the eye could see, the earth was red. It wasn't orange, or soil red, or brown red, or perhaps all of them at once. It was profound rich red, glittering deeply in the mid-morning light. She was vaguely aware of having known that somewhere in Australia the land was this colour but the reality of it was startling and stunning."

Eva Sallis is an Australian writer. She won the Australian/Vogel literary award for a first novel by a writer under 35. This book is about Hiam, an Arab migrant woman who runs away after her family life is destroyed. Gorgeous book.