Climate change and Extremism battling heroine threatens to take over Harry Potter!!

Saci Lloyd, London based teacher of A-level students at an inner-city college, is fast becoming one of Britain’s most successful crusading authors.

Her first book, The Carbon Diaries 2015, shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards last year, already has a slavish following among teenagers in this country and in America. The futuristic story introduced the world to a hapless new heroine, Laura Brown, a figure who now threatens to become as potent in the entertainment industry as Harry Potter.

Her new book, a sequel called The Carbon Diaries 2017, is out this month and takes Laura Brown into a frightening era where climate change is busily altering all the norms of modern existence. Laura, a teenager who plays in a band called the Dirty Angels, is the kind of feisty character that readers who are tiring of Potter’s tame school scarf and round glasses will welcome.

When the first Carbon Diaries ­volume came out, critics described it as “an uproarious, scathing and pathos-filled romp” and “a wonderfully mordant look at the coming environmental ­meltdown”. Well going by the buzz, I sure am excited to read what the whole frenzy is about!!