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Happily I have a wretched memory, so reading 'The Power' for the second time was a perfect combination of familiarity (to new characters: I love you already) and surprise (good god, I can't believe that just happened). There's too much to say about Naomi Alderman's provocative feminist dystopia. In a time about now, across the world, girls electrify—literally, not metaphorically—delivering electrical shocks with their hands. It's weird, it's shameful and playful and then almost immediately deadly, and the balance of power between men and women is fundamentally shifted. What do you think would happen if women had real power? Read it, then read it again.