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. The Power will premiere exclusively on Prime Video on Friday, March 31 with new episodes available each Friday, leading up to the season finale on May 12.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. It’s character-led and slow-moving, but keeps you absolutely gripped, so that when sparks do fly – not always in the way you expect – it packs a real punch.įans of the books will be delighted to know that the series is very faithful to the source material, and that when it does diverge, it’s generally to flesh out something interesting.

If you’re expecting superhero fight scenes you’ll be disappointed. She and John Leguizamo play a married couple struggling with their daughter’s power, and have a chemistry and ease together that is a joy to watch. Toni Collette plays Margot, the mayor of Seattle, and it looks like the show will have room to expand on the book’s political backdrop largely via her character. You know them and care about them quickly.Īs the first three episodes play out, a political situation begins to develop that feels alarmingly plausible. The show follows a lot of characters, but introduces them with a deft mix of depth and concision. The teenage girls in question are not the impossibly glamourous ‘high school students’ of US network TV – these girls feel and look real, from scowling gangster’s daughter Roxy (Ria Zmitrowicz) to deceptively resourceful Allie (Halle Bush). The show takes its time introducing our main characters, and it’s immediately clear that the creative power behind the show is almost entirely female. After a torturously long production, thanks to Covid, and the loss of various cast members, the TV adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s award-winning novel, The Power, is finally making it to TV screens – and it’s not even a tiny bit worse for wear.Īcross the world – from grimy London to American Midwest via Lagos – teenage girls are developing mysterious electrical powers.

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