Five Degrees - Sim Barker

Sim Barker is a marketer, mother and climate activist who wrote Five Degrees to show the imapct of our current business as usual approach to carbon use. The book is set in Bristol in 2069, and tracks real effects on the weather and food availability, along with having a ripping yarn.

GENRE: Thriller

Blurb:

Welcome to Bristol, baking in the scorched summer of 2069. Food is scarce and freedom scarcer, so when Bonnie gets the chance to land a well-paid job with a local arm of the authoritarian UK Government, could her troubles be over? Or is there more to this than meets the eye? Five Degrees anticipates our future through the eyes of a young woman as she struggles to improve her chances. “A DARK AND MOVING PICTURE OF COMING TIMES”