The Carhullan Army : `The Lake District's answer to The Handmaid's Tale.' Guardian

"The lake district's answer to the handmaid's tale." guardian

England 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