Her books have sold over two hundred thousand copies worldwide in seven languages. She works as a consultant on climate storytelling for museums, production companies and publishers, with a focus on optimism and hope. Lauren is the founder of the Climate Fiction Writers League, and member of the Society of Authors’ Sustainability Committee. She is a RLF Royal Fellow at Aston University, freelance editor and screenwriter.
Lauren James is the thrice Carnegie-nominated British author of many Young Adult novels, including Green Rising, The Reckless Afterlife of Harriet Stoker and The Loneliest Girl in the Universe. How can you spend your days in harmony, when you know that every hour represents the thousands of years of human civilisation behind you? With those generations looking over your shoulder, are you ever truly yourself, or are you just the culmination of their decisions? How can you be an individual without looking ahead or behind you? Should you even try? Those are the questions that Lowrie and Shen are asking each other in The Quiet at the End of the World.**I don't respond to messages on here - email me at laurenjamesauthorgmailcom or send an ask on Tumblr instead*** What do you do? If you know you’re the last of your kind, and nothing you do matters or will be remembered once you’re gone. And how easily the smallest thing could push it over the edge.
I wanted to tell a story about how vulnerable life is, when the human race is an endangered species on the brink of extinction. I just wanted to write about humanity in isolation.
So as a writer, I didn’t want to write a dystopia full of villains and evil governments (there’s enough of that in real life). As a reader I feel like there are so many stories that hadn’t been told in that kind of setting – after the angst of the apocalypse, when you’re not necessarily trying to rebuild the world but live a good, happy life in the time you have left. I read Station Eleven a few years ago, and really came away from that novel with a sense of just how much there still is to live for when you’ve lost everything.
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