“So here they are: the swot, the fraud, the dutiful daughter, the child star, the fangirl and the asshole. 

The six of them assembled in an awkward circle in the small lift, trying not to stand too close to one another and failing.”

When they got in the lift that morning, they were strangers.  Sasha, who is at the UK’s biggest TV centre desperately trying to deliver a parcel; Hugo, who knows he's by far the richest (and best-looking) guy in the lift; Velvet, who regrets wearing the world's least comfortable shoes to her work experience; Dawson, who isn't the good-looking teen star he was and desperate not to be recognized; Kaitlyn, who’s slowly losing her sight but won't admit it, and Joe, who shouldn't be there at all, but who wants to be there the most. And one more person, who will bring them together again on the same day every year...  

The Breakfast Club meets One Day in this unique collaborative novel by seven of the most exciting talents in UKYA: Sara Barnard, Holly Bourne, Tanya Byrne, Non Pratt, Melinda Salisbury, Lisa Williamson and Eleanor Wood. 

Told from the perspective of each character and a mysterious narrator, Floored is about all the ups and downs of life. After they go through a traumatic experience together, the lives of these six strangers become intricately intertwined, and they decide to meet once a year to commemorate the day they met - and the person they lost. 

Each character, each chapter, each story told – the writing of Floored was a truly collaborative process right from the start. From picking a distinct and interesting character and deciding on the book’s larger narrative arc, to figuring out who was going to fall in and out of love over the course of the book. Floored is a novel of consequences, six stories seamlessly woven together by seven of UKYA’s finest authors. With so many different imaginations at work brilliant and unexpected things could – and would – happen.