The Power

Teenage girls across the world discover they can channel electricity through their hands, and the ability spreads to almost every woman alive. Within a decade the entire architecture of power inverts, and Naomi Alderman follows four people through the upheaval without ever letting it become a utopia. Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Emma Watson chose it for Our Shared Shelf, framing it around a question: what would the world be like if women were in charge?