Forthcoming in 2024!

The Desert Knows Her Name

A new novel by Lia Hills

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Praise for the The Crying Place

Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2018

Australian Independent Booksellers’ Book of the Month – March 2017

‘Lia Hills travels country and talks country. The Crying Place is a necessary read if you want to know your place in Australia.’

BRUCE PASCOE, author of Dark Emu

‘The Crying Place is an impressive novel of friendship and the haunting contradictions at the base of Australian society.’

ALEX MILLER, twice winner of the Miles Franklin

‘A brave and devastating novel of grief, place and belonging…Its grace, its compassion and its deep humanity makes you see our country anew. This book is bracing and tough, kind and generous.’

CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS, author of The Slap

‘One of the books of the year!’

– MICHAEL CATHCART, Radio National, Books & Arts Daily

In May 2017, Lia took The Crying Place on the road, retracing the journey she made when recording the first draft, finishing at the NT Writers’ festival in Alice. You can read about Lia’s road trip in the story that appeared in The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald.