Tooting author wins Book Award!
Congratulations to Tooting author, Laura Baggaley, who’s been awarded the gold medal for ‘Best Book for Teenagers’ in the Wishing Shelf Book Awards for her novel Dirt, published by Habitat Press!
Dirt is a dystopian eco-romance for young adults:
“Food is scarce in Newbeck. Rations are meagre. Everyone grows what they can on government-allotted Squares of land, using seeds and soil bought from mysterious mega-business, the Green Cultivation Corporation.
“One hot day, a strange girl rides into town wearing a sunhat as big as a bicycle wheel. She arrives alone, on a desert track from nowhere, full of questions no-one’s ever asked before.
“Local boy Sam is fascinated by her. Why won’t she talk about her family and where she lives? Why is she so curious about his way of life? And why can’t he get her out of his head...”
To find out more, visit www.laurabaggaley.co.uk