Daughters of the North: A Novel |
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| Authors: | Hall, Sarah |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins e-books |
| BISAC/Subject: | FIC019000, FIC028000, FIC028080 |
| ISBN: | 9780061866593, Related ISBNs: 0061866598, 9780061430367, 9780061866593 |
| Classification: | Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 240, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
In this stunning novel, Sarah 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.
Includes an excerpt from Sarah Hall's new book The Beautiful Indifference.
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