num_pages: 210
description: In her stunning novel Hall imagines a new dystopia set in the not-too-distant future. England is in a state of environmental crisis and economic collapse. There has been a census and all citizens have been herded into urban centers. Reproduction has become a lottery with contraceptive coils fitted to every female of childbearing age. A girl who will become known only as Sister escapes the confines of her repressive marriage to find an isolated group of women living as un-officials in Carhullan a remote northern farm where she must find out whether she has it in herself to become a rebel fighter. Provocative and timely Daughters of the North poses questions about the lengths women will go to resist their oppressors and under what circumstances might an ordinary person become a terrorist.
language: English
title: Daughters of the North
publisher: Harper Perennial