Novel

Black Snow Falling

Hold on to your hopes and dreams…

(back cover blurb)

The black sky empties itself. Shadows tumbling without end… 

It’s 1592. Ruth has secrets. A love that she and Silas hide from the world. A banned book of science. And a haunting dream.

When heart-breaking news shatters her plans, Ruth’s devastation splits apart time… where sinister creatures are rampaging through the years, plundering hopes and dreams.

Now they’re hunting her down.

Nominated for three awards: the 2019 CILIP Carnegie Medal, Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award and Historical Association Young Quills. Scottish Book Trust Book of the Month and Teen Book of the Month. Waterstone’s Top YA Title.

A novel for all readers (age 11+). Publisher: Scotland Street Press. Available from FoylesWaterstonesBlackwell’s and Amazon  or from your local bookshop.

Black Snow Falling by L.J. MacWhirter on a tudor box
Black Snow Falling by L.J. MacWhirter on a 16th century cabinet