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A big, brash, page-turning, thought-provoking thriller

A fascinating look at what the world might be like if millennia of sexism went the other way. Ingenious . . . deserves to be read by every woman (and, for that matter, every man)

It's magnificent. I'm agog. Really, I'm several gogs. So smart and scary and sad but true

Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

The Handmaid's Tale for the Gone Girl generation

The Hunger Games crossed with The Handmaid's Tale

The Power is a subtly funny, lyrical and utterly subversive vision of an impossible future. As all the best visionaries do, Alderman shines a penetrating and yet merciful light on to our present and the so many cruelties in which we may be complicit

Electrifying! Shocking! Will knock your socks off! Then you'll think twice, about everything

The Power is a fascinating look at what the world might be like if millennia of sexism went the other way...as a whole the narrative feels ingenious...deserves to be read by every woman (and, for that matter, every man)

A feminist science-fiction story that's about to make waves

If you enjoy Margaret Atwood's dystopian fiction, this strong, substantial novel is for you

Alderman is a fluent and powerful writer

When we say that The Power is profoundly disturbing and you may well want to argue with it as you read, we mean that in a good way

I loved it; it was visceral, provocative and curiously pertinent . . . The story has stayed with me since

Stylist, the decade's 15 best books by remarkable women

What starts out as a fantasy of female empowerment deepens and darkens into an interrogation of power itself, its uses and abuses and what it does to the people who have it

A raw, gutsy slice of speculative dystopia

Like the best science fiction, this dystopian feminist fantasy holds up a mirror to the here and now

A gripping read and a reminder of the true joy of a truly engaging story

Naomi's super-charged, subversive novel....forcing you to rethink everything

One of my favourite books of 2016 - clever, harrowing and thought-provoking

Paula Hawkins, best-selling author of The Girl on the Train

It's a feminist dystopian page-turner of a thriller and I'm IN LOVE with it

This year's Baileys winner is simultaneously a high-concept thought experiment and a rollercoaster, action packed read

The Power by Naomi Alderman is the feminist flipside to The Handmaid's Tale, asking what happens when women are suddenly the stronger sex

An enthrallingly told Cassandra-like prophecy from the ever-inventive Naomi Alderman

This book sparks with such electric satire that you should read it wearing insulated gloves

The Power is at once as streamlined as a 90-minute action film and as weirdly resonant as one of Atwood's own early fictions

In this fierce and unsettling novel, the ability to generate a dangerous electrical force from their bodies lets women take control, resulting in a vast, systemic upheaval of gender dynamics across the globe

It's a riveting story, told in fittingly electric language, that explores how power corrupts everyone: those new to it and those resisting its loss'

Suddenly - tomorrow or the day after - teenage girls find that with a flick of their fingers, they can inflict agonizing pain and even death. With this single twist, the four lives at the heart of Naomi Alderman's extraordinary, visceral novel are utterly transformed.

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'Electrifying' Margaret Atwood 
 
'A big, page-turning, thought-provoking thriller' Guardian 
 
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All over the world women are discovering they have the power. With a flick of the fingers they can inflict terrible pain - even death. Suddenly, every man on the planet finds they've lost control. 
 
The Day of the Girls has arrived - but where will it end? 
 
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'The Hunger Games crossed with The Handmaid's Tale' Cosmopolitan 
 
'I loved it; it was visceral, provocative and curiously pertinent . . . The story has stayed with me since' Stylist, The Decade's 15 Best Books by Remarkable Women 
 
'Superb. Insightful, thrilling, funny. Well-crafted, compelling, serious-minded' Daily Telegraph 
 
'Fascinating, ingenious, rattles with a furious pace. Deserves to be read by every woman (and, for that matter, every man)' The Times 
 
'Irresistible. Holds a mirror up to the here and now' Mail on Sunday 
 
'Chilling, thrilling, a blast' Financial Times

'She throws her head back and pushes her chest forward and lets go a huge blast right into the centre of his body. The rivulets and streams of red scarring run across his chest and up around his throat. She'd put her hand on his heart and stopped him dead.' 
 
 Suddenly - tomorrow or the day after - girls find that with a flick of their fingers, they can inflict agonizing pain and even death. With this single twist, the four lives at the heart of Naomi Alderman's extraordinary, visceral novel are utterly transformed, and we look at the world in an entirely new light. 
 
What if the power to hurt were in women's hands?

Naomi Alderman is the author of three previous novels: Disobedience, The Lessons and The Liars' Gospel. She has won the Orange Award for New Writers and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. She was selected for Granta's once-a-decade list of Best of Young British Novelists and Waterstones Writers for the Future. She presents Science Stories on BBC Radio 4, she is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and she is the co-creator and lead writer of the bestselling smartphone audio adventure app Zombies, Run!. She lives in London.

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Electrifying

A big, brash, page-turning, thought-provoking thriller

A fascinating look at what the world might be like if millennia of sexism went the other way. Ingenious . . . deserves to be read by every woman (and, for that matter, every man)

It's magnificent. I'm agog. Really, I'm several gogs. So smart and scary and sad but true

The Handmaid's Tale for the Gone Girl generation

A stone cold genius

The Hunger Games crossed with The Handmaid's Tale

The Power is a subtly funny, lyrical and utterly subversive vision of an impossible future. As all the best visionaries do, Alderman shines a penetrating and yet merciful light on to our present and the so many cruelties in which we may be complicit

Electrifying! Shocking! Will knock your socks off! Then you'll think twice, about everything

The Power is a fascinating look at what the world might be like if millennia of sexism went the other way...as a whole the narrative feels ingenious...deserves to be read by every woman (and, for that matter, every man)

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