Shortlisted book features women able to kill men with single touch

Naomi Alderman whose sci-fi book The Power is shortlisted for Baileys women’s prize for fiction, hopes most readers won’t take it the wrong way

A science fiction book imagining a world where women develop a power to hurt or kill men with a single touch has been shortlisted for a major literary prize.

Naomi Alderman’s thriller The Power is one of six books shortlisted for the £30,000 Baileys women’s prize for fiction, an award which has been celebrating fiction written by women in English since 1996.

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