The Strangers
$59.28
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
17 October 2026
Summary
From the bestselling, Women’s Prize-winning author of The Power, a wildly audacious, deeply moving new novel that follows a writer wrestling with grief even as a new species is discovered, forcing humans to reconsider what it means to share our planet
They had come from nowhere, and now they were everywhere
A few months after her mother dies, the novelist Naomi Alderman sets up a wildlife camera in the back garden of her parents’ home. It captures the first image of a strange …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241777664 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241777666 |
| Author: | Naomi Alderman |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Fig Tree |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 17 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 504g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 145mm x 224mm |
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Critics Review
Compulsively engrossing … draws us into an uncanny world of hurt and tenderness. Speculative fiction with brains and heart * Emma Donoghue *
Alderman has created something curious, messy and unexpectedly comforting … her wit and dazzling, inquiring intellect blaze out * Financial Times *
Bold and uncompromising … interrogates pain at the source without searching for a neat encapsulation … the result is something wonderful * Irish Times *
What a glowing, remarkable, brilliant gift of a book! Truly what the world needs now * Laurie Frankel, author of This Is How It Always Is and Enormous Wings *
A profoundly strange and deeply marvellous book about grief. It’s been pure joy to live for a while inside Naomi Alderman’s brain * Lucy Worsley, author of Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman: *
‘Utterly compelling … I love [Naomi’s] writing, I love her mind’ * Nigella Lawson *
In the same way that a gravestone is an attempt to give form to an absence, Alderman’s structural ingenuity allows the reader to wrangle some of the ineffable aspects of grief into something more coherent and bounded * Guardian *
The Strangers is a deeply moving and wise book, asserting the painful truth that we simply do not get to choose the things that we lose * Guardian *
Her most personal work yet … A must-read for anyone who has ever loved and lost * Harper’s Bazaar *
Wonderfully odd, intensely affecting … so completely sui generis * India Knight, author of Home *
Naomi Alderman
Naomi Alderman holds degrees in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, Classical Studies, Creative Writing, and Classics. She is an award-winning novelist, broadcaster, TV producer, and video game creator with over 20 years of experience in technology startups.
Alderman is the author of the bestselling novel The Power, which was selected as a book of the year by Bill Gates and Barack Obama and adapted into a TV series for Amazon Prime. Her other novels include The Future, The Liars’ Gospel, The Lessons, and Disobedience.
She is also the co-creator of the fitness game and audio adventure Zombies, Run!, which has attracted more than ten million players. Naomi writes and presents Human Intelligence, a history of thinking series for BBC Radio 4.
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