I still see her sometimes in my sleep. She is walking through the blue and orange lights of the city or in the desert country of red ground, spinifex and oaks. Last night I dreamed she was climbing a green and blue mountain, the kind you see in the tropics, rich and heavy with steam and rain. She is still only a girl in my dreams, but that's how I remember her. In every dream she is walking. In every dream I call out her name. Tania.
Ten years after the disappearance of her best friend, and the death of her mother, Cassandra Noble escapes her country childhood to pursue life as an artist in the city. On the threshold of a promising career as a painter, her creativity suddenly abandons her. Soon after, she finds herself with a lover who wishes to control her just as her father once did.
While her last painting just might hold the key to why she can no longer create, what will happen when she discovers the two tragic events of her childhood are linked in ways she could never have imagined?
A New Name for the Colour Blue is a story of the healing power of remembering, of love, and the breathtaking beauty of the natural world.
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Annette Marner's poetry has been published in several anthologies. She was shortlisted for the International Youth Year Young Writers' Award, won the BankSA poetry prize and has read her work widely. She is also a regular literary commentator on ABC Radio National.
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'A powerful story beautifully told.' - Fran Kelly
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'South Australian writer, South Australian setting and South Australian aesthetic! With the enigmatic and stunningly desolate Southern Flinders Ranges as its backdrop, this is breathtaking writing on love, art and creativity. When Cassandra flees a relationship and returns to the difficult stomping grounds of her childhood in the Flinders, she reckons not only with her past but with the long standing implications of colonialism on the First Nations of the Flinders Ranges. A New Name for the Colour Blue explores the new ways we can engage with this ancient country: its colours and history, through art and transformation.' - Molly Murn, author and bookseller
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'Highly recommended . . . Marner's novel is not a simple mystery story; it is a complex interweaving of many themes from Australia's dark past along with the story of a woman's journey towards self-understanding and empowerment.' - Helen Eddy, ReadPlus
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'Marner is a master wordsmith, with each reference carefully chosen and evoked in a way that adds a depth to the story without making it longer . . . Simply magical, this book should be on everyone's reading list' - Zoe Butler, Glam Adelaide
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'Marner's gift for beautiful prose and poetic imagery reels the reader in. Her imaginative flair for succinct word play can frame feelings, music, paintings and sketches of the natural world. And with such piercing clarity the imagery lingers in the mind.' - Gillian Wills, ArtsHub
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'A New Name for the Colour Blue was simply amazing. Beautiful, moving, haunting, fragile and deceptive: actually deceptive doesn't cut it, sneaky is better, in a good, clever and enlightening way. Incredibly sneaky in the way it weaves a tale of domestic violence, of control and expectation, grief, abandonment, and the pain of growing up and away from family; into the slide into acceptance of the past and how to craft a future. There is a lot of ground covered, but it's beautifully, precisely done, no wasted words, no dwelt on evil, always accentuating the search for understanding, meaning, acceptance and place.' - Karen Chisholm, AustCrime