In her stunning novel, Sarah Hall imagines a new dystopia set in the not-too-distant future where our bisexual heroine must find a way to survive. Britain is now underwater, and assets have been seized by the sinister Authority that runs the government. Provocative and timely, Daughters of the North poses questions about the lengths women will go to resist their oppressors, and under what circumstances might an ordinary person become a terrorist.

There has been a census, and all citizens have been herded into urban centers. Reproduction has become a lottery, with contraceptive coils fitted to every female of childbearing age. A girl who will become known only as "Sister" escapes the confines of her repressive marriage to find an isolated group of women living as "un-officials" in Carhullan, a remote northern farm, where she must find out whether she has it in herself to become a rebel fighter.

Paperback - 209 pages