Power

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

Review: 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 *

Thought-provoking novel * Glamour *

When we say that The Power is profoundly disturbing and you may well want to argue with it as you read, we mean that in a good way * SFX, Five Stars *

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 *

As awesome as it is compulsive * Heat, 5 stars *

What starts out as a fantasy of female empowerment deepens and darkens into an interrogation of power itself, its uses and abuses and what it does to the people who have it * Guardian *

A raw, gutsy slice of speculative dystopia * Metro *

Like the best science fiction, this dystopian feminist fantasy holds up a mirror to the here and now * Mail on Sunday *

A gripping read and a reminder of the true joy of a truly engaging story * Stylist *

Frenetic sci-fi novel * Daily Mail *

Naomi's super-charged, subversive novel....forcing you to rethink everything * Psychologies *

One of my favourite books of 2016 - clever, harrowing and thought-provoking -- Paula Hawkins, best-selling author of The Girl on the Train

Electrifying -- Margaret Atwood

It's a feminist dystopian page-turner of a thriller and I'm IN LOVE with it -- Marian Keyes

This year's Baileys winner is simultaneously a high-concept thought experiment and a rollercoaster, action packed read * Guardian *

The Power by Naomi Alderman is the feminist flipside to The Handmaid's Tale, asking what happens when women are suddenly the stronger sex * Evening Standard *

An enthrallingly told Cassandra-like prophecy from the ever-inventive Naomi Alderman * Observer *

This book sparks with such electric satire that you should read it wearing insulated gloves * Washington Post *

The Power is at once as streamlined as a 90-minute action film and as weirdly resonant as one of Atwood's own early fictions * Boston Globe *

In this fierce and unsettling novel, the ability to generate a dangerous electrical force from their bodies lets women take control, resulting in a vast, systemic upheaval of gender dynamics across the globe * New York Times Books of the Year *

It's a riveting story, told in fittingly electric language, that explores how power corrupts everyone: those new to it and those resisting its loss' * New York Times *

Prizes: Winner of Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017.