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WIN 10 copies of Fireflies in Winter by Eleanor Shearer for your reading group

For Adults

Headline is offering 5 reading group sets of up to 10 copies of Fireflies in Winter, the gripping, moving story of the fierceness of love and the fight for survival from the author of the Good Morning America Book Club pick River Sing Me Home.

About Fireflies in Winter. . .

Nova Scotia 1796. Cora, an orphan newly arrived from Jamaica, has never felt cold like this. In the depths of winter, everyone in her community huddles together in their homes to keep warm. So when she sees a shadow slipping through the trees, Cora thinks her eyes are deceiving her. Until she creeps out into the moonlight and finds the tracks in the snow.

Agnes is in hiding. On the run from her former life, she has learned what it takes to survive alone in the wilderness. But she can afford no mistakes. When she first spies the young woman in the woods, she is afraid. Yet Cora is fearless, and their paths are destined to cross.

Deep among the cedars, Cora and Agnes find a fragile place of safety. But when Agnes’s past closes in, they are confronted with the dangerous price of freedom – and of love…

With evocative prose and immersive storytelling, a powerful novel about love – love for the wilderness in all its unforgiving beauty, and love between two women who risk everything to be together.

How to take part:
To enter the giveaway, just email marketing@headline.co.uk with the subject line RA: Fireflies in Winter Bookclub by 5pm on 24th January 2026, letting use know why your reading group would like to read Fireflies in Winter and how many copies (up to 10) you’d like to receive.

5 reading groups will be randomly selected to each win a set of up to 10 Hardback copies of Fireflies in Winter.

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