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The Mural by Lucy E.M. Black is set in Toronto, 1980s. Shirley’s inner world is saturated with storybook romance—the perfect soulmate, the transformative love, the life that gleams just out of reach.

A QUILTING OF SCARS (Now or Never Publishing, 2025), @lucyemblack’s recently released novel of historical fiction, reminds us that we don’t know what someone else is carrying with them through [...]

I read @lucyemblack’s latest novel back in January, immersed in its late 19th-century rural world—in both the comforts of that earlier time and place, and the quiet horrors of societal strictures [...]

In this episode of On Creative Writing, author Emma Woodhouse sits down with Canadian author Lucy E. M. Black to discuss her latest novel, A Quilting of Scars. Lucy discusses her fulfilling [...]

It’s 1909 and Larkin Beattie is a bachelor in his fifties, still living on the farm that he grew up on. We can tell that he is a gentle soul who loved his mother and father dearly, and is sad [...]

Paint a picture of your favourite coffee shop for writing. What makes it perfect to you? Is it the corner table, the barista who knows your name, the way the light hits at 2pm?

An absolutely powerful read. The writing is enchanting; lush, atmospheric, and so evocative that rural Ontario in the early 1900s feel fully alive on the page.

A compelling murder mystery woven into a richly detailed portrait of rural life in the 1800's.

A Quilting of Scars follows Larkin, an aging farmer and bachelor.

This is the second book by @lucyemblack that I’ve read, and I’m a fan! The first was The Brickworks and I was impressed by her skill at writing about male friendship.