Daughters of the North

From Booker and Orange Prize-nominated author Sarah Hall comes the tale of an imaginary England, a future dystopian society where the right to bear a child is determined by a state lottery system.

In this stunning novel Sarah Hall draws on the work of Margaret Atwood and George Orwell to imagine a dystopic England where terrifying new systems of control are in place and reproduction has become a lottery. When a girl known only as "Sister" escapes the confines of her increasingly repressive marriage to find an isolated group of women living on a remote northern farm, she must find out whether she has it in herself to become an active insurgent.

This fascinating novel considers what lengths women will go to in a brutalized world in order to resist their oppressors, what tactics they must employ to survive and remain free. But the story asks a wider and more difficult question: under what circumstances might an ordinary person become a terrorist?

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 04/01/2008
ISBN: 9780061430367
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.52w x 0.59d
Award: Spectrum Awards - Finalist

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/07/2008 pg. 35
Library Journal 02/01/2008 pg. 62
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2008 pg. 107
Booklist 03/01/2008 pg. 47
New Yorker (The) 05/12/2008 pg. 123