Awards

• Shortlisted for Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017.
• Winner of Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017
• Winner of Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017.

Overview

'She throws her head back and pushes her chest forward and lets go a huge blast right into the centre of his body. The rivulets and streams of red scarring run across his chest and up around his throat. She'd put her hand on his heart and stopped him dead.' Suddenly – tomorrow or the day after – girls find that with a flick of their fingers, they can inflict agonizing pain and even death. With this single twist, the four lives at the heart of Naomi Alderman's extraordinary, 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?

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'The Hunger Games crossed with The Handmaid's Tale.' -- Cosmopolitan '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 brash sci-fi fantasy, clever and coarse, calculated and hectic.' -- The Observer

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Adjoa Andoh is a British film, television, stage and radio actress. She is a familiar face on British television – starring in two series of Doctor Who, BBC's long-running medical drama Casualty and popular soap opera EastEnders. Most recently she appeared as Lady Danbury in Netflix’s Bridgerton. Andoh is also an accomplished narrator, winning an Audiobook of the Year Audie Award for Tea Time for the Traditionally Built – the tenth in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith, all of which she voices. Thomas Judd is a British actor and voiceover artist. His film credits include Any Other Day (2014), Indian Ocean (2010) and Persona (2011). He has narrated over 180 audiobook titles, including works from authors such as George Orwell, Bernard Cornwell, James Patterson, David Mitchell, Georgette Heyer and Anton du Beke. Thomas’s audio drama work includes Six Degrees of Assassination, 2000AD and The Noise. He has also done commercial voiceover work for Fiat, Channel 4 and The Times. Emma's audiobook recordings include Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand, Chaos of the Senses by Ahlam Mosteghanemi, Now You See Me by Lesley Glaister, An English Ghost Story by Kim Newman and Backpack by Emily Barr, as well as the audio drama, Six Degrees of Assassination by M.J. Arlidge. Her recent stage work includes Wuthering Heights (Tour), Twelfth Night with Honey­Tongued Theatre (Dubrovnik) and Alice with Creation Theatre (Oxford). Phil Nightingale is a London-based British actor, trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. He played the lead role of John in 'The Door' at The Park Theatre in London following a successful preview at Brighton Fringe earlier in 2013 where it was shortlisted for the New Writing South 'Best New Play' award. He provides the voice of the much loved Sam Yao in the top-selling fitness app, Zombies, Run! and Lawrence in The Walk by Six to Start and Naomi Alderman.

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