They can use this power to hurt, to torture, and to kill. Imagine if one day, suddenly, girls developed a strange physical power: they can produce electricity inside them. It's an intriguing and clever concept, but this never really translates into an engaging story. I have a lot of mixed feelings about Alderman's The Power. What matters is that she could, if she wanted. It doesn’t matter that she shouldn’t, that she never would. The project was commissioned by Booktrust as part of the Story campaign, supported by Arts Council England. She wrote the narrative for The Winter House, an online, interactive yet linear short story visualized by Jey Biddulph. Since its publication in the United Kingdom, it has been issued in the USA, Germany, Israel, Holland, Poland and France and is due to be published in Italy, Hungary and Croatia. Her literary debut came in 2006 with Disobedience, a well-received (if controversial) novel about a rabbi's daughter from North London who becomes a lesbian, which won her the 2006 Orange Award for New Writers.
She and her father were interviewed in The Sunday Times "Relative Values" feature on 11 February 2007.
Her father is Geoffrey Alderman, an academic who has specialised in Anglo-Jewish history. She was the lead writer for Perplex City, an Alternate reality game, at Mind Candy from 2004 through June, 2007. She then went on to study creative writing at the University of East Anglia before becoming a novelist. Naomi Alderman (born 1974 in London) is a British author and novelist.Īlderman was educated at South Hampstead High School and Lincoln College, Oxford where she read Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
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