The Power

'She throws her head back and pushes her chest forward and lets go a huge blast right into the centre of his body. The rivulets and streams of red scarring run across his chest and up around his throat. She'd put her hand on his heart and stopped him dead.'Suddenly – tomorrow or the day after – girls find that with a flick of their fingers, they can inflict agonizing pain and even death. With this single twist, the four lives at the heart of Naomi Alderman's extraordinary, visceral novel are utterly transformed, and we look at the world in an entirely new light.What if the power to hurt were in women's hands?

Winner of Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017

'The Hunger Games crossed with The Handmaid's Tale.' -- Cosmopolitan
'The Power is a fascinating look at what the world might be like if millennia of sexism went the other way...as a whole the narrative feels ingenious...deserves to be read by every woman (and, for that matter, every man).' -- The Times
'A brash sci-fi fantasy, clever and coarse, calculated and hectic.' -- The Observer

Adjoa Andoh is a British film, television, stage and radio actress. She is a familiar face on British television – starring in two series of Doctor Who, BBC's long-running medical drama Casualty and popular soap opera EastEnders – and has more recently appeared as Lady Danbury in the Netflix series Bridgerton.A renowned stage actor, Andoh has been celebrated for lead roles at the National Theatreand the Royal Shakespeare Company, where she played Portia in Julius Caesar, Ulysses in Troilus & Cressida and Helen of Troy in The Odyssey. In 2019 she conceived, co-directed, and played Richard II at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, in the UK’s first all women-of-colour production. She made her Hollywood debut in 2009, starring alongside Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon in Clint Eastwood’s biographical sports film Invictus. Other film appearances include Adulthood, Brotherhood, and I Is A Long Memoried Woman.Andoh has been a BBC radio actor for more than 30 years and is an accomplished and award-winning narrator of more than 150 audiobooks, including Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Naomi Alderman’s The Power and all of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith. Andoh won the Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year for #10 in that series, Tea Time for the Traditionally Built. In 2023 Andoh was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was on the judging panel for the 2023 Booker Prize. Thomas is an award-winning actor and and voiceover artist. He has narrated over 230 audiobook titles, including books by George Orwell, Franz Kafka, Charles Dickens, Bernard Cornwell, James Patterson and David Mitchell. He has won two AudioFile Earphones Awards and in 2024 won the OffWestEnd Award for Best Supporting Performance in Sense & Sensibility. Emma's audiobook recordings include Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand, Chaos of the Senses by Ahlam Mosteghanemi, Now You See Me by Lesley Glaister, An English Ghost Story by Kim Newman and Backpack by Emily Barr, as well as the audio drama, Six Degrees of Assassination by M.J. Arlidge. Her recent stage work includes Wuthering Heights (Tour), Twelfth Night with Honey­Tongued Theatre (Dubrovnik) and Alice with Creation Theatre (Oxford). Phil Nightingale is a London-based British actor, trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. He played the lead role of John in 'The Door' at The Park Theatre in London following a successful preview at Brighton Fringe earlier in 2013 where it was shortlisted for the New Writing South 'Best New Play' award. He provides the voice of the much loved Sam Yao in the top-selling fitness app, Zombies, Run! and Lawrence in The Walk by Six to Start and Naomi Alderman.

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