Like I suddenly had the power of electricity and I could shock anyone that pissed me off. I read it non-stop and was blown away when I finished. We live in a world dominated by men so I longed to experience a world dominated by women. If the book isn’t willing to even give an inkling of what the book is about then I have no interest in reading it. I checked all over the book, the back the front, even inside. When I picked up Hot Milk in Sainsbury’s because I heard it was good, I struggled to find a blurb. When properly placed they can add to the cover. Sometimes they get in the way of really good cover art or ruin it entirely. It was like love at first sight.Īs well as falling in love with the cover, I was persuaded to buy it by a quote on the front, which is probably the only time that’s happened.Īs I was fresh from reading The Handmaid’s Tale which I really really liked, I knew that if Atwood thought it was good then it must be. You know sometimes you just look at a book and you know. I took one look at this book and it instantly went in my basket. I was shopping in Sainsbury’s one day and I made my way to the books as I always do. Had I not read Northern Lights, this surely would have won, but NL enthralled me even more than this did. It very nearly missed out on my book of the year. It won the Baileys Prize for women’s fiction and it’s to be turned into a tv series. The Power came out in 2016, but it’s only recently gained popularity.
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