The Power

By Naomi Alderman

Teenage girls develop the power to deliver an electric shock from their hands, and can wake the same power in older women. Within a decade every assumption about safety, work, religion and government has inverted. Told through four characters — a Nigerian journalist, an American politician, a London crime family’s daughter and a girl who becomes a prophet — and framed as a historical novel written thousands of years later. Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction.

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