What would happen if women suddenly possessed a fierce new power?"The Power is our era's The Handmaid's Tale." --Ron Charles, Washington Post*WINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION*A Vox Best Best Book of the DecadeOne of the New York Times's Ten Best Books of the YearOne of President Obama's favorite reads of the YearA Los Angeles Times Best Book of the YearOne of the Washington Post's Ten Best Books of the YearAn NPR Best Book of the YearOne of Entertainment Weekly's Ten Best Books of the YearA San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearA Bustle Best Book of the YearA Paste Magazine Best Novel of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceAn Amazon Best Book of the Year"Alderman's writing is beautiful, and her intelligence seems almost limitless. She also has a pitch-dark sense of humor that she wields perfectly." --Michael Schaub, NPRAll over the world women and girls are discovering they have the power. With a flick of the fingers they can inflict terrible pain, and even death. And with this small twist of nature, everything changes drastically. Ambitious and provocative, visceral and page-turning, award-winning author Naomi Alderman's THE POWER at once takes us on a journey to an alternate reality and exposes our own world in bold and surprising ways.


Naomi Alderman is the recipient of the 2017 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction for The Power. She is also the author of The Liars’ Gospel and Disobedience, which won the Orange Prize for New Writers, has been published in ten languages, and has been made into a film by Rachel Weisz. Alderman was selected for Granta’s once-a-decade list of Best of Young British Novelists and was chosen by Margaret Atwood as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. She is the cocreator and lead writer of the bestselling smartphone audio adventure app Zombies, Run! She contributes regularly to The Guardian and presents Science Stories on BBC Radio 4. She lives in London.