In the weeks before my daughter was born I was surprised by how many well-wishers told me that I would notice a contrast between her temperament and that of my son. She would be less noisy, they said, more serene. It’s still early days… but it’s the kind of thing Naomi Alderman’s new novel gets you thinking about.
It’s a brash sci-fi fantasy, clever and coarse, calculated and hectic, with the premise that sometime around 2018 girls everywhere find that they have the ability to emit lethal bolts of electricity – generated by a previously undetected length of flesh under the collarbone. Governments fall, there’s a new religion, and online forums throb with talk of “the coming gender war”.
Alderman excels is in how thoroughly she develops her conceit
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