Identify the novel and the author from the first line of the book. Person giving the first correct answer sets the next question. Please keep it to reasonably well known books - don't let it drift off into "who knows the most obscure book?"
Punctually at six o'clock the sun set with a last yellow flash behind the Blue Mountains, a wave of violet shadow poured down Richmond Road, and the crickets and tree frogs in the fine gardens began to zing and tinkle.