The Carhullan Army
The Carhullan Army is a 2007 novel by Sarah Hall, being published in 2008 in the US as Daughters of the North. The novel won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award for 2007. Amazon.co.uk synopsis:
The world has changed. War rages in South America and China, and Britain - now entirely dependent on the US for food and energy - is run by an omnipresent dictatorship known simply as The Authority. Assets and weapons have been seized, every movement is monitored and women are compulsorily fitted with contraceptive devices. This is Sister's story of her attempt to escape the repressive regime. From the confines of her Lancaster prison cell she tells of her such for The Carhullan Army, a quasi-mythical commune of 'unofficial' women rumoured to be living in a remote part of Cumbria...[1]
Editions
- 2007: Faber and Faber, hardcover 224 pp., 0571236596 (UK edition)
- 2008: Harper Collins, trade paper, 0061430366 (US edition, published as Daughters of the North)
Reviews, discussions
- Book Review: Post-Apocalyptic Hell Can Be Beautiful, Charlie Jane Anders, io9, 2008/3/19
- Gerry Caravan, Children of Women - A Ferocious Dystopian Novel from Sarah Hall, IndyWeek.com, May 14, 2008.