Silver Highways

by Kate Lance

"A beautiful and poignant coming of age romantic tale that kept me reading from start to finish." Goodreads.

Lucy Fox is sailing to Melbourne in 1906 with her sister Rosa, when a tragic landfall leaves her life entangled with three gentle Sam, cynical Danny and beautiful Gideon.

After Rosa's scandalous elopement, trader Min-lu draws Lucy into a new world of silks and spices and the silvery pearlshell of a port in the wild Australian north-west where breaking the rules is a way of life.

The Great War begins and Lucy's lover must go to sea, where ruthless U-boats are stalking the last of the great sailing ships.

But even when peace returns, the influenza pandemic comes with it … and Lucy, far from home, discovers how bitterly she has been betrayed.

Silver Highways is the foundation novel of the Tempo series, by the winner of the Mountbatten Maritime Award and the Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Non-Fiction.

344 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 26, 2020

About the author

I grew up near Lake Macquarie, NSW, Australia. My history of the charmed life of an old pearling lugger, Redbill: From Pearls to Peace, won the Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Non-Fiction 2004, and in 2009 Alan Villiers: Voyager of the Winds won the Mountbatten Maritime Award. The WWII novel, The Turning Tide, was published in 2014 under the name CM Lance, as was the thriller Atomic Sea in 2016. Recent books include Silver Highways, Testing the Limits (Tempo 1), and Embers at Midnight (Tempo 2). I live in green South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.

This author is the same as C. M. Lance

Reviews

[Hose Ronaldo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kate Lance has written a beautiful and poignant coming of age romantic tale that kept me reading from start to finish. Lance masterfully transports the reader back to the early twentieth century with a captivating writing style that both captures and immerses the reader within the era from the perspective of our protagonist Lucy. Her story is one of heartfelt joy and crushing tragedy that kept me enthralled to the end.

[Hannelore Cheney · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thank you NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for the eARC.
It's1906 and Lucy and Rosa Fox are on a sea voyage to Melbourne. They have an unfortunate docking and Rosa elopes.
3 Seamen enter Lucy's life and Trader Min-Lu introduces Lucy to a wondrous and exotic life in Broome.
We then go to1914 and the start of WWI, when Lucy's partner must leave to join the fight.
When the war ends, the terrible flu pandemic hits, Lucy is far from home and faces her terrible betrayal.
This is such a poignant story and I loved Lucy and Min-Lu. With everything going on in our world now I realized how true the saying 'history repeats itself' is. This is a stunning romantic history novel that I highly recommend.