Curfew
Book Feature - Curfew by Jayne Cowie
HBL Note: Envision a world where women dominate workplaces, public spaces, and government. Where the gender pay gap no longer exists. Where motherhood opens doors instead of closing them. Where women are no longer afraid to walk home alone, or to catch the last train. How can this world exist?
Are you sold? Because that is all it took to sell me on this novel. Jayne Cowie created a world inspired by the #MeToo movement. A world in which women call the shots and men are held accountable for their violent and aggressive actions. A world in which violence toward woman is nearly eliminated. Scroll down to read more about this captivating novel.
Book Feature - Curfew by Jayne Cowie
From the publisher:
In Cowie’s near-future England, a strictly enforced curfew was the only option. At least, that’s what seventeen-year-old Cass learns in school. As women suffered increasing levels of violence at the hands of men, the courts took action – and legalized a society in which men would be traced and their movements restricted at night. Cass hates curfew because it limits kind men, like her best friend, Billy. Billy would never hurt anyone, and Cass wants to find a way to prove it… somehow.
Helen, Cass’s teacher, is secretly desperate for a baby, and she knows her boyfriend Tom is a good man, but part of the curfew mandate stipulates that a couple wanting to move in together must first submit an application and participate in a series of interviews with a therapist. She is terrified that their application won’t be approved.
But Cass’s mother, Sarah, owes her livelihood to the curfew. She works at a tagging center and is grateful for the harsh penalties levied against her ex-husband, Greg, who has been imprisoned for breaking curfew. When Sarah learns that his release is imminent, she’s scared, but knows that the curfew will protect her and Cass.
After all, the curfew was created to protect women from men. And it has – until now. When a woman’s body is discovered in a local park, all bets are off. A woman couldn’t have committed this heinous crime – and the curfew means that any man who tried would have been caught…right?
