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?

Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 04/01/2008
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.52w x 0.59d
ISBN: 9780061430367


Award: Spectrum Awards - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
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

About the Author
Hall, Sarah: -

Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria. She is the prizewinning author of six novels and three short story collections. She is a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award, Edge Hill Short Story Prize, among others, and the only person ever to win the BBC National Short Story Award twice.