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.
- ISBN13 9780571200788
- Publish Date 5 April 1999
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 7 August 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Paperback
- Pages 592
- Language English