Highway Blue

An Observer 10 BEST DEBUTS OF 2021 A hypnotic story of young love on the run `I loved Highway Blue - a dark, glimmering, journey deep into modern America` Rosie Price, author of What Red Was `Highway Blue holds you captive like a blues song or incantation` Olivia Sudjic, author of Asylum Road Anne Marie is adrift San Padua, living a precarious life of shift-work and shared apartments. Her husband Cal left her on their first anniversary and two years later, she can`t move on. When he shows up suddenly on her doorstep, clearly in some kind of trouble, she reluctantly agrees to a drink. But later that night a gun goes off in an alley near the shore and the young couple flee together, crammed into a beat up car with their broken past. Their ill-at-ease odyssey takes them across a shimmering American landscape and through the darker seams of the country, towards a city that may or may not represent salvation. Highway Blue is a story of being lost and found; of love, in all its forms; and of how the pursuit of love is, in its turn, a kind of redemption. early readers love highway blue (all reviews from NetGalley) `This will be one of the best books of the year` `Highly recommended` `I was glued to it from the first page and couldn`t put it down` `Thoroughly engrossing and wonderfully written` `Fabulous characters` `An author to watch!`