Daughters of the North - A Novel
Author(s): Sarah Hall
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?
Product Information
General Fields
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- : HarperCollins Publishers
- : Harper Perennial
- : 0.22226
- : 01 April 2008
- : .54 Inches X 5.31 Inches X 8 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : Sarah Hall
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 240