The Power

WINNER OF THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION. LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 ORWELL PRIZE. What if the power to hurt were in women's hands? Alderman's stunning dystopian novel is the first science fiction novel to win the Baileys prize for women's fiction. Set in a future where women and girls can kill men with a single touch, it questions whether women would abuse power any differently to men, given the chance. With this single twist, the four lives at the heart of Naomi Alderman's extraordinary, visceral novel are utterly transformed ... Roxy, the daughter of a London crime lord; Tunde, a journalism student in Lagos; Allie, from the southern states of the US and Margo, a low-level politician