Naomi Alderman and I are covering a lot of ground. Let’s see: Electric eels, feminism, ethical pornography, video games, the structures of organised religion, the future of education… oh, and novels, of course. And this is just over a couple of hours at breakfast in north London. “My conversation does tend to dot around all over the place,” she says, laughing. “Forgive me, that’s just how my brain works.”
But that’s the pleasure of an encounter with her; she’s the sort of person I feel I’ve known a long time, even though we’ve never met before. We’re here to talk about The Power, her fifth novel, a book that is quite literally shocking: It describes a parallel society in which women have the power to issue deadly electrical jolts from…
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Harper's Bazaar Singapore (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2017