After her hippie British parents are murdered, Lilly is raised at a Sufi shrine in Morocco. Like Brick Lane and The Kite Runner, Camilla Gibbas widely praised new novel is a poignant and intensely atmospheric look beyond the stereotypes of Islam. But even swathed in a traditional headscarf, Lilly canat escape being marked as a foreigner. As a young woman she goes on pilgrimage to Harar, Ethiopia, where she teaches Quraan to children and falls in love with an idealistic doctor. Forced to flee Ethiopia for England, she must once again confront the riddle of who she is and where she belongs.