In The Power the world is a recognizable place- there's a rich Nigerian kid who larks around the family pool; a foster girl whose religious parents hide their true nature; a local American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. But something vital has changed, causing their lives to converge, with devastating effects. Now, with the flick of a switch, teenage girls can cause agonizing pain and even death. And, with this small twist of nature, the world changes utterly.
This extraordinary novel by Naomi Alderman, a Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year and Granta Best of Young British writer, is not only a gripping story of how the world would change if physical power was in the hands of women but also exposes, with breath-taking daring, our contemporary world.
About the Author
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.
Industry Reviews
Electrifying! Shocking! Will knock your socks off! Then you'll think twice, about everything -- Margaret Atwood
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
A stone cold genius -- Sarah Perry
Alderman is a fluent and powerful writer Sunday Times
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
Rich, fresh, fascinating Sunday Times (on 'Disobedience') Stunningly accomplished ... a novel of such intensity, meaning and depth that it must be destined to become a classic' Radio 4 Saturday Review (on The Liars' Gospel)
A very visceral novel, filled with clamouring egos, fears, manipulations, the instinct for survival ... Expect to be sucked in. Superb Daily Mail (on 'The Liars' Gospel')
Succeeds magnificently, superb, brilliant. A provocative and mesmerizing novel New Statesman (on 'The Liars' Gospel')
A world as beautiful and sinister as any in a fairytale. A pleasure to read Independent (on The Lessons)
