Book cover for “Fireflies in Winter” by Eleanor Shearer, an illustration of two figures on a beach at dusk featured in the March 2026 Bocas Book Bulletin.

Fireflies in Winter

Author: Eleanor Shearer
Genre: Fiction

Synopsis

Fireflies in Winter (Berkley) by Eleanor Shearer centres on Cora and Agnes, two girls from wildly disparate backgrounds who must contend with a dangerous Nova Scotian winter of 1796.