Highway Blue is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination, or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2021 by Ailsa McFarlane

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Hogarth, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

HOGARTH is a trademark of the Random House Group Limited, and the H colophon is a trademark of Penguin Random House LLC.

Published in the United Kingdom by Harvill Seckler, a Penguin Random House UK company.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Names: McFarlane, Ailsa, author.

Title: Highway blue: a novel / Ailsa McFarlane.

Description: First edition. | London; New York: Hogarth, [2021]

Identifiers: LCCN 2020031891 (print) | LCCN 2020031892 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593229118 (hardcover; acid-free paper) | ISBN 9780593229125 (ebook)

Classification: LCC PS3613.C43957 H54 2021 (print) | LCC PS3613.C43957 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2020031891

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2020031892

Ebook ISBN 9780593229125

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Cover design: Anna Kochman

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