Electric Life: Surge

Written by Rachel Delahaye

Publication date: September 2025
Ages: 12+
Format: Paperback / 198 x 129 mm / 352 pages
ISBN: 9781912745449
Rights available: World
UK retail price: £9.99

Rachel Delahaye’s award-winning 2023 novel Electric Life ended with heroine Alara rejecting her life in the ‘Star city’ of Estrella and opting instead, after an intelligence-gathering mission gone wrong, to live in London Under, the long-deserted and distrusted city on top of which Estrella was built.

It has now been six months since Alara’s move and she is struggling to adapt. While at first she felt free of Estrella’s ‘perfect’ society, now she feels claustrophobic and panicked, and she dreams of escaping to the surface with her partner, Jay, and travelling in the open. But Jay is consumed by Under’s volatile politics, and tensions rise as the city fractures under the pressure of scarcity.

In this dramatic, tense and fast-paced sequel, Alara has to make the most difficult and dangerous decisions of her life to help save both Estrella and London Under from mutual and catastrophic destruction.

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