Join us for a virtual celebration of A Snowfall of Silver, Laura Wood's latest historical YA romance. Laura will be in conversation with Lucy Powrie about her utterly charming new book.

A Snowfall of Silver is a snow-dusted love story. In the Autumn of 1931, eighteen-year-old Freya Trevelyan runs away from her home in Cornwall to follow her dream of becoming an actress. When she is invited to join a theatrical company about to head out on tour, Freya thinks the path to success is clear, and, amidst all the glamour and bustle of stage life, she finds - for the first time - a place to belong. But can reality ever live up to her expectations? What if her life - and falling in love - turn out to be nothing like she planned? An enchanting coming of age romance about following your dreams - even when they aren't quite what you expected.

Laura Wood is the winner of the Montegrappa Scholastic Prize for New Children’s Writing. Her first YA novel A Sky Painted Gold was shortlisted for the 2019 YA Book Prize, 2018 BAMB Readers’ Awards and the 2019 Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Awards. Her second YA novel, Under A Dancing Star, was hailed as ‘achingly romantic’ by the Observer. She is also the author of the critically acclaimed Vote for Effie (shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award) and the Poppy Pym series for younger readers.

Lucy Powrie, also known as @lucythereader, is a blogger and YouTuber from Wiltshire. She set up www.queenofcontemporary.com in 2012 and has since been named as one of the Guardian’s Top Ten Best Book Bloggers and dubbed the ‘Zoella of Books’ by The Times. Lucy’s debut novel, the first in The Paper & Hearts Society trilogy, was published in June 2019 by Hachette Children’s, and was followed up with the much sort-after sequel The Paper & Hearts Society: Read with Pride in May 2020. The third and final book in the series will be published in 2021.

A Snowfall of Silver: Launch with Laura Wood & Lucy Powrie