The Strangers

byNaomi Alderman

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They had come from nowhere, and now they were everywhere

A few months after her mother dies, the novelist Naomi Alderman notices a strange new creature captured on her garden wildlife camera. Low to the ground, with flat faces and long, trunk-like noses, the mimmoths quickly become as common as foxes or dogs. No one knows where they’ve come from or what they want.

Alderman cannot shake the sense that she has a particular connection to the mimmoths. But she is far from the only person to feel this, and as their impact grows, she is pulled into the cross currents of conspiracy theories and global power struggles.

Has her own experience of grief lent recent events a surreal air, or is reality changing drastically and irrevocably? And what will these strange creatures reveal about themselves, and humanity?

Compulsively engrossing ... draws us into an uncanny world of hurt and tenderness. Speculative fiction with brains and heart

Emma Donoghue

About Naomi Alderman

Naomi Alderman has a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics and another one in Classical Studies. Also an MA in Creative Writing and another MA in Classics. She's an award-winning novelist, broadcaster, TV producer and videogames creator. She has worked in technology startups for more than 20 years, since the time when people in tech still felt utopian about "making the world a better place". Which now makes her feel slightly embarrassed about her naivety. She is the author of the bestselling, multi-award-winning The Power, which was chosen as a book of the year by both Bill Gates and Barack Obama and became a TV series for Amazon Prime. Her other books include The Future, The Liars’ Gospel, The Lessons and Disobedience She is the co-creator of the fitness game and audio adventure Zombies, Run! which has more than ten million players. Naomi writes and presents Human Intelligence, a history of thinking on BBC Radio 4.
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  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9781405981415
  • Length: 224 pages
  • Price: £9.99
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