The Power
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  • Published: 4 April 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241547953
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $22.99

The Power

Now a Major TV Series with Prime Video

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Paperback
4 Apr 2023
Paperback
27 Apr 2017
EBook
27 Oct 2016
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The iconic bestseller, winner of the Women's Prize, and soon-to-be TV series

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?

With this single twist, the four lives at the heart of Naomi Alderman's shocking and visceral novel are utterly transformed, and we look at the world in an entirely new light. What if the power to hurt were in women's hands?

The iconic bestseller, winner of the Women's Prize, and soon-to-be-TV series, The Power is a truly extraordinary modern classic.
  • Published: 4 April 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241547953
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Naomi Alderman

Naomi A. Alderman's first novel, Disobedience, was published in 2006 in ten languages and won the Orange Award for New Writers. In 2007, she was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, and one of Waterstone's 25 Writers for the Future. Her second novel, The Lessons, was published in April 2010. Naomi was lead writer on the BAFTA-shortlisted alternate reality game Perplex City and writes a weekly games column for the Guardian. Naomi A. Alderman's 2017 novel, The Power was the winner of the 2017 Baileys women’s prize for fiction.

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Also by Naomi Alderman

The Liars' Gospel
Doctor Who: Borrowed Time
The Lessons
Disobedience
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Praise for The Power

Electrifying

Margaret Atwood

A big, brash, page-turning, thought-provoking thriller

Guardian

A fascinating look at what the world might be like if millennia of sexism went the other way. Ingenious . . . deserves to be read by every woman (and, for that matter, every man)

The Times
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