Justine has come across the classic beach bum before, but Los brings a whole new meaning to the term. He is different from anyone else she has ever met, and when her hormones slip into overdrive, she doesn't really care that the surf in question is the Internet and not the ocean, formerly the preserve of geeks and nerds in anoraks. As she plots to track down her man she finds herself uploaded to 1967, following her time-travelling hero into cyberspace. But when she comes face to face with her mother as a swinging-sixties teenager Justine starts to understand that there are some things in life that never change.

There is a sharp and often cruel wit in Chloe Rayban's writing that takes Love in Cyberia, a novel that could so easily have been just another teenager-in-love story, to a new dimension, making for a smart, funny, pacey and thoroughly modern novel. -- Susan Harrison