Books by Naomi Alderman
Alderman dedicated this book—a feminist science fiction novel, in which women are discovered to have the ability to electrocute men at will by means of a hidden internal organ—to Margaret Atwood, who acted as her literary mentor during 2012 and 2013. The two writers obviously have a great many common interests, and fans of Atwood will find a lot to like in this fantastical tale, which sees gender roles upended and then later inverted. The Power was the winner of the £30,000 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2017.
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