London-based author Sarah Holding’s new coming-of-age YA book entitled 'blackloop' comes out on 31 October, an edgy story in which seven teenagers – trapped inside a building after a strange energetic event – discover it's activated a weird technology device with powerful consequences.

Set around Hallowe'en – hence the timing of its release – the pacy story is gripping and dark, bringing many adolescent demons to the fore, and causing the main character, Bo, to deal with love and loss for the first time.  Sarah hopes this story will find an avid readership among audiences who enjoyed the hit series 'Stranger Things' and the 1980s movie 'The Breakfast Club', as it contains elements of both.

Brimming with strong emotional scenes, 'blackloop' also speculates about the future of power generation at a time when we are all having to recognise the need to dial back on our use of fossil fuels, a topical theme dear to the author, whose previous titles 'SeaBEAN' and 'Chameleon' also come under the exciting emergent genre of cli-fi.