Sharp North by Patrick Cave

(518 p., Call Number: Y FICTION CAVE, PATRICK sci-fi)

In a future Great Britain vastly altered by dramatic climatic changes, the Great Families and the Fertility Board rule. Mira, an adopted teen, flees a remote power-generating village after seeing a woman, who dropped a piece of paper with four names written on it (including Mira's), murdered by the police; the list is the key to realizing the mystery that is her life. An arduous trek over snowy mountains, around flooded valleys, and by sea takes her to the city where Kay Saint, scion of one of the Great Families who roams the streets at night doing drugs and escaping his bodyguard, gives Mira food and other gifts. He eventually sneaks her into his palatial home, where she finds that Kay's mother and sister and Mira herself were cloned from the same person. But why? And for what purpose?

Sharp North features a dystopian future and environmental hazards not dissimilar to those featured in The Hunger Games and should be worth a look by fans of that book.