Another good read from award-winning author Andrew JH Sharp. The Oxygen of Escape Beth Jenkins - semi-bereaved wife, rootless doctor - runs away from home at the age of twenty-eight and a half and becomes a heroine of a revolution. Locked into a lonely future by a cruel twist of fate, Beth reaches breaking point, abandons her husband, and flees to faraway Zimbabwe. Her attempts to create a new life falter when she finds herself at the center of a deadly struggle for the ownership of a farm. From a guest of honor at the President’s table to a disastrous decision that betrays a good man, her new start threatens to end in catastrophe. But the land and its painted rocks hold clues to a path to atonement and re-found love if she has the courage to search.