The Girl Who Made It Snow
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Kara Cove-Brown is 11 and she makes her own Christmas presents. One year, she asks her great-grandmother, Nanna Pearl, what she wants Kara to make her. In a brief moment of clarity, Nanna Pearl asks for a White Christmas.
The only problem is that no snow is predicted for Bristol this Christmas, in fact, no snow is predicted anywhere in England or Wales, so what is Kara to do?
Armed only with her wit, imagination, her resolute little sister Sophie, and a Black Dog, Kara sets out to make it snow no matter what it takes. Along the way she gets help from her house spirit, faces of with the ghosts of Arnos Vale, the monsters and rogue characters of Bristol, and grumpy Gods.
But does she make it snow by Christmas Day?
The Girl Who Made It Snow is a light hearted romp through some of Bristol’s less well-known areas, building on real and invented folklore, as well as many lost ideas from English mythology. In Kara Cove-Brown, we have a strong-willed and intelligent lead willing to battle all to keep a promise.
Mark Wollacott
Mark Wollacott was born in 1980 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, and grew up there, but has spent most of his 20s in Japan and Hungary. He studied at Europe's smallest university, the University of Wales, Lampeter and played badly for their cricket team. Graduation saw him move into an assistant manager role at a hiking store in Cirencester until it burnt down in 2004. After a brief stint in Bristol, he spent five years teaching English in Osaka, Japan. While there he wrote for Kansai Time Out, Kansai Scene and on coming back to England, The Austin Post. His first short story "The Spare Room" was published in the For Tohoku charity anthology in 2011. He has found it increasingly difficult to find work in Britain and his poetry collection "108 Breaths" is his first attempt on a long road to becoming a self-publisher and full-time writer. It is either that or join the dole queue. Mark now spends most of his time writing, arguing with his cat and wishing Aston Villa would not sell their best players.
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