The Silver Darlings By Neil M. Gunn

The Silver Darlings

By Neil M. Gunn

Published by Faber & Faber 1989 reprint paperback

ISBN: 0571090419

The Silver Darlings is a tale of lives hard won from a cruel sea and crueller landlords. It tells of strong young men and stronger women whose loves, fears and sorrows are set deep in a landscape of raw beauty and bleak reward. The dawning of the Herring Fisheries brought with it the hope of escape from the brutality of the Highland Clearances, and Neil Gunn’s story paints a vivid picture of a community fighting against nature and history and refusing to be crushed.