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The Power

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780670919963

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 248g

  • RRP: £8.99

The Power

  • WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017

'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

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780670919963

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 248g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • 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

    Grazia

  • A stone cold genius

    Sarah Perry

  • The Hunger Games crossed with The Handmaid's Tale

    Cosmopolitan

  • 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

    A. L. Kennedy

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

    Margaret Atwood

  • 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)

    The Times

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

    Red

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

    Woman & Home

  • Alderman is a fluent and powerful writer

    Sunday Times

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About the Author

Naomi Alderman

Naomi Alderman is the author of four novels. In 2006 she won the Orange Award for New Writers and in 2007 she was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, as well as being selected as one of Waterstones' 25 Writers for the Future. All of her novels have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime. In 2013 she was selected for the prestigious Granta Best of Young British Writers. She lives in London.

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The Power and Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls announced as Foyles Books of the Year

Naomi Alderman's The Power was named Fiction Book of the Year, following on from winning this year's Bailey's Prize in June. Published by Viking, an imprint of Penguin General, The Power places the reader in a dystopian future where teenage girls find that, with a flick of their fingers, they can inflict agonising pain, and even death - seeing the lives of its four protagonists transformed. Speaking of The Power, Simon from the Foyles marketing team said: "What if all women developed the power to electrocute people at will? In The Power Naomi Alderman answers this intriguing question in spectacular style, weaving an utterly absorbing narrative around the lives of characters around the world as they bear witness to society's violent transformation. If you like your page-turners whip-smart and ferociously current, this is the book for you."

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