I find it funny that London still has street buskers. Like the band on the Titanic, buskers will play us straight through a mass extinction event.
For readers of SUCH A FUN AGE and SEVERANCE, this eco-satire spins cli-fi on its head as it takes the emotional temperature of our age.
Hope isn't having fun coming of age during the uncoming of an age. She's the only black girl at school. Her parents have just been fired for their activism. And when not casually surviving the end of times, she's basically invisible next to her blindingly blonde frenemy.
A decade later, Hope is the uncredited workhorse behind the biggest fundraising charity on the planet. That is until she's chosen to lead a spiritual retreat for the elite - but as the weekend degenerates into ayahuasca-fuelled chaos, the big break she's been hoping for might just end up breaking the system...
BAD VIBES is a hilarious debut novel about hope and the struggle of keeping it alive as the world crumbles into a steaming cesspool of white supremacy and single-use plastic.
PRAISE FOR AJA BARBER:
'Powerful... Essential' LAYLA SAAD
'A voice we MUST listen to' CLEMENTINE FORD
'SUCH integrity. Aja is no bullsh*t' FLORENCE GIVEN
- ISBN10 1840918527
- ISBN13 9781840918526
- Publish Date 17 July 2025
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Octopus Publishing Group
- Imprint BRAZEN
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 224
- Language English