I had a holiday booked at the end of August so saved it for then, looking forward to relaxing on a sun lounger sipping a cocktail engrossed in my book and ignoring my husband. Reading The Handmaid’s Talefor my English A Level in the late 1990s piqued my interest in dystopian novels and with the number of reviews comparing Margaret Atwood’s novel to The Power I just knew I had to read it (I also love a book bandwagon, just saying). The Power by Naomi Alderman has been everywhere in 2017 Twitter and Instagram have both been flooded with effusive praise, magazines and newspapers have billed it as the book to read and earlier in the year it won the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. And, with this small twist of nature, the world changes utterly. Teenage girls now have immense physical power – they can cause agonising pain and even death. But something vital has changed, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. In The Power the world is a recognisable place: there’s a rich Nigerian kid who larks around the family pool a foster girl whose religious parents hide their true nature a local American politician a tough London girl from a tricky family.
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