Cry Wolf

Cry Wolf is a 1996 novel by Aileen La Tourette. It is a feminist utopia/dystopia set in a post-nuclear-apocalypse future. Curie, an anti-war activist, child of one of the women of Greenham Commons Women's Peace Camp, survives and becomes the leader of a group of mutant children.

Only a few plants survive the fallout and the "nuclear summer".

The religion she invents for the new society is a worship of the body. Children build and tend their own graves as ritual works of art until age 16, at which point their grave is finished and can't be changed.

Over the course of the book, during her old age, Curie decides to share some of the terrible and complex past with the members of the new society.

Further reading

• "Cry Wolf" mid-book reactions, Liz Henry, FSFblog