Saci Lloyd#The Carbon Diaries: 2015

Saci Lloyd (born in Manchester) is a British writer.[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2051847.Saci_Lloyd Saci Lloyd] Lloyd teaches media studies in secondary school in East London, and publishes young adult novels of dystopian near-futures. Speaking of her chosen genre, Lloyd says “The best dystopia is a lens for looking at contemporary society. I like books that get children reading, and if that means vampires and werewolves then so be it, but I think reality is a more interesting topic.”{{cite news |title=Doomed! The new teen book genre: Dystopian fiction is swiftly taking over from vampires and werewolves |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/doomed-the-new-teen-book-genre-2265785.html |date=10 April 2011 |last=Cooper |first=Charlie |work=The Independent |accessdate=9 Feb 2012}} Reviewer Rebecca Onion describes Lloyd's genre as “soft apocalypse,” which “chronicle[s] societies changing as a result of a series of rolling crises, rather than in the blink of an eye, as from a nuclear blast....” Onion continues “Because they take this ‘soft’ approach, Lloyd’s Carbon Diaries books are wonderful at showing the effects of climate change and scarcity on everyday life; they’re also completely terrifying.”{{cite web | url=http://www.rebeccaonion.com/2011/09/young-and-hot-saci-lloyds-the-carbon-diaries/ | title=Young and Hot: Saci Lloyd's The Carbon Diaries | date=6 September 2011 | accessdate=28 October 2015 | last=Onion | first=Rebecca}}

Works

{{cite book |title=The Carbon Diaries: 2015 |last=Lloyd |first=Saci |year=2009 |publisher=Holiday House |isbn=978-0-8234-2301-9}}
{{cite book |title=The Carbon Diaries: 2017 |last=Lloyd |first=Saci |year=2010 |publisher=Holiday House |isbn=978-0-8234-2390-3}}
{{cite book |title=Momentum |last=Lloyd |first=Saci |year=2011 |publisher=Hodder Children's Books |isbn=978-1-4449-0081-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/momentum0000lloy }}
{{cite book |title=Quantum Drop |last=Lloyd |first=Saci |year=2013 |publisher=Hodder Children's Books |isbn=978-1-4449-0082-8 |url=https://archive.org/details/quantumdrop0000lloy }}
{{cite book |title=It's the End of the World as We Know It |last=Lloyd |first=Saci |year=2015 |publisher=Hachette Children's |isbn=978-1-4449-1668-3}}

=The Carbon Diaries: 2015=

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The Carbon Diaries: 2015 is a 2009 young adult novel written by Saci Lloyd, popular in the United Kingdom.{{cite news |title=Forget Harry Potter: Saci Lloyd thrills teenagers with a heroine who battles climate change and extremism |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jan/17/carbon-diaries-saci-lloyd-television |first=Vanessa |last=Thorpe |publisher=The Observer |date=16 January 2010 |accessdate=9 Feb 2012}}

The book chronicles a year of the life of Laura, a sixteen-year-old student in London, as the UK imposes carbon rationing in the wake of weather-related disasters. The stresses of rationing and extreme weather tear at the social fabric of Europe and England, while Laura's family is torn apart as her father loses his job and her selfish older sister refuses to adapt. Laura just wants to live a normal life, attract the attention of the fetching and accomplished boy next door, and practice with her friends in her garage band.

References

External links

{{official website|http://sacilloyd.com/}}

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