The Power
The book "Power of Darkness" is an edition of twenty dark, mysterious stories. Each has its significance, perhaps in love, often in human terror and solitary endurance. From the love a man bears his dead wife and the misunderstanding that hinders his sight, to the strange country superstition that comes true, the writer displays the strange imagination that comes to deep human minds
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The questions readers send us most often, answered without spoilers.
In a near-future, teenage girls around the world wake up able to deliver painful and sometimes lethal electric shocks from a strip of muscle on their collarbones, and can wake the same gift in older women. The novel follows four people across the decade in which the world's balance of power tips.
Yes. The Power won the 2017 Women's Prize for Fiction. Naomi Alderman was also a Granta Best of Young British Novelists selection. The metadata above lists Edith Nesbit in error.
Yes. Amazon Prime Video released a 2023 series adaptation of The Power, starring Toni Collette and John Leguizamo. The show was cancelled after one season.
The Power was written by Edith Nesbit, published in 2006 by Benediction Classics.
The Power is 29 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Power takes most readers under an hour to finish.
The Power is a standalone novel by Edith Nesbit, not part of a series.
The Power is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.