Carhullan Army

''The Lake District''s answer to The Handmaid''s Tale.'' GuardianEngland is in a state of environmental and economic crisis. Under the repressive regime of The Authority, citizens have been herded into urban centres, and all women of child-bearing age fitted with contraceptive devices. A woman known as ''Sister'' leaves her oppressive marriage to join an isolated group of women in a remote northern farm at Carhullan, where she intends to become a rebel fighter. But can she follow their notion of freedom and what it means to fight for it?''At the vanguard of the new wave of futuristic dystopian literature . . . an accomplished, provocative novel.'' Literary Review''Hall''s fierce and shocking writing captures the cruel beauty of Cumbria.'' Telegraph''A dystopian vision of a disturbingly near future in which the floods have risen and the oil has run out . . . entirely modern and brutally fresh.'' Independent