The Carbon Diaries 2017

A sequel to Lloyd's Costa-shortlisted 2015 title, this new novel continues Laura's story as the world faces carbon rationing.

Now at university in London, a city in which civil disobedience is rife, she juggles her studies, her shifting relationships with boyfriends, her family, and her future in a punk band.

Lloyd intersperses Laura’s diary with the emails, texts and letters she receives, and presents her YA readers with a communication style with which they can readily engage.

Given its setting is merely several years hence, the outcomes of climate change and dictatorial government are frighteningly drastic, and offer thought-provoking discussion possibilities.

Laura’s personal dilemmas, however, are timeless, and Lloyd skilfully interweaves science fiction, political and social ethics and teenage interest.