Children's story book digital The Blizzard of Bowland the "Beast from the east" In 2018, the worst snowstorm in decades swept through the valley. The roads vanished under towering drifts, the dry-stone walls disappeared beneath a white wilderness, and entire flocks of sheep—sheltering in gullies and behind ridges—were buried alive.
Lee and Sam, like every farmer in the valley, feared the worst. Their 378 sheep were missing. Only 26 had been found near the farmyard, the rest swallowed by the vast, frozen expanse.
