- Imprint: Penguin
- ISBN: 9781405981415
- Length: 224 pages
- Price: £9.99
Emma DonoghueCompulsively engrossing ... draws us into an uncanny world of hurt and tenderness. Speculative fiction with brains and heart
Financial TimesAlderman has created something curious, messy and unexpectedly comforting ... her wit and dazzling, inquiring intellect blaze out
Irish TimesBold and uncompromising ... interrogates pain at the source without searching for a neat encapsulation ... the result is something wonderful
Laurie Frankel, author of This Is How It Always Is and Enormous WingsWhat a glowing, remarkable, brilliant gift of a book! Truly what the world needs now
Lucy Worsley, author of Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman:A profoundly strange and deeply marvellous book about grief. It's been pure joy to live for a while inside Naomi Alderman's brain
Nigella Lawson'Utterly compelling ... I love [Naomi's] writing, I love her mind'
GuardianIn the same way that a gravestone is an attempt to give form to an absence, Alderman’s structural ingenuity allows the reader to wrangle some of the ineffable aspects of grief into something more coherent and bounded
GuardianThe Strangers is a deeply moving and wise book, asserting the painful truth that we simply do not get to choose the things that we lose
Harper's BazaarHer most personal work yet ... A must-read for anyone who has ever loved and lost
India Knight, author of HomeWonderfully odd, intensely affecting ... so completely sui generis
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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