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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 06/04/2017
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ISBN: 9780670919963
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Length: 352 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm
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Weight: 248g
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RRP: £8.99
The Power
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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
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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 06/04/2017
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ISBN: 9780670919963
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Length: 352 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm
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Weight: 248g
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RRP: £8.99
Reviews
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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
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The Handmaid's Tale for the Gone Girl generation
Grazia
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A stone cold genius
Sarah Perry
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The Hunger Games crossed with The Handmaid's Tale
Cosmopolitan
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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
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Electrifying! Shocking! Will knock your socks off! Then you'll think twice, about everything
Margaret Atwood
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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
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A feminist science-fiction story that's about to make waves
Red
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If you enjoy Margaret Atwood's dystopian fiction, this strong, substantial novel is for you
Woman & Home
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Alderman is a fluent and powerful writer
Sunday Times
