Sarah A Smith

She’s Electric

The Power

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The Power has already been wildly praised and was awarded this year’s Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. I have to concur with established opinion: Naomi Alderman has written an exhilaratingly intelligent book that is as funny as it is politically acute. I can’t think of another novel that is quite so thrilling a read (or, indeed, one that had me whooping with delight after just sixteen pages).

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