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The Power
Women's Prize for Fiction · 2017 · Winner
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Women's Prize for Fiction | 2017 | Winner |
About This Book
Teenage girls develop the ability to release electrical jolts from their fingertips. Within a few years, all women can do it. In a world where women are the physically dominant sex, the novel follows four characters—Allie, Roxy, Margot, and Tunde—across different continents as the old world is turned upside down, and new forms of violence and power emerge.
About the Author
Naomi AldermanBritish
Naomi Alderman was born in London in 1974, the daughter of Geoffrey Alderman, a specialist in Anglo-Jewish history. She was educated at South Hampstead High School and Lincoln College, Oxford, where she studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics. She worked in children's publishing and for a law firm before studying creative writing at the University of East Anglia. Read more →
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