Poignant, moving, and cinematic, this is a story imbued with love and loss that feels at once distantly dreamlike and vividly recognisable. ? An Yu, author of BRAISED PORKHighway Blue is a beautiful, inspired rendering of the on-the-road journey.At its core is an unforgettable protagonist in Anne Marie. McFarlane has written an irresistible story of love and life's meanderings. A very gifted writer, I was entranced. ? Elaine Feeney, author of AS YOU WEREAilsa McFarlane's prose combines the razor sharp truth telling of Ottessa Moshfegh with the troubled heart of Raymond Carver, using plain language to conjure a shockingly intense way of seeing. I've never read anything quite like it. ? Emma Copley Eisenberg, author of THE THIRD RAINBOW GIRLI 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 WASHypnotic, stylish, cinematic: Highway Blue holds you captive like a blues song or incantation. ? Olivia Sudjic, author of ASYLUM ROAD Ailsa McFarlane was born in 1997 in Seattle, Washington, and grew up in Snowdonia in the United Kingdom. After leaving school, she studied veterinary science before dropping out to travel the United States and Europe by road. Highway Blue is her first novel.