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Highway Blue
Featured in the Observer 10 BEST DEBUTS OF 2021A hypnotic story of young love on the run`I loved Highway Blue – a dark, glimmering, journey deep into modern America on a knife edge between love and dependence.` Rosie Price, author of What Red Was`Hypnotic, stylish, cinematic: Highway Blue holds you captive like a blues song or incantation.` Olivia Sudjic, author of Asylum RoadAnne 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.In front of me the long length of the road wound out, wound out and wound on under hot sky. And I drove…