Book description
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, 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 search for The Carhullan Army, a
quasi-mythical commune of 'unofficial' women rumoured to be living in
a remote part of Cumbria . . .
Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria in 1974 and now lives and works
there. Her first novel, Haweswater, was published by Faber in 2002.
Her second, The Electric Michelangelo, was shortlisted for the Man
Booker Prize in 2004.
