THE STRANGERS

The highly anticipated audacious new novel from the Women s Prize winning author of The Power Alderman has gone from promising young author to publishing phenomenon a writer gifted with the double Midas touch of commercial success and literary prestige Sunday Times What a glowing remarkable brilliant gift of a book Laurie Frankel author of This Is How It Always Is and Enormous Wings It is the genius of Naomi Alderman to embed a smart and thought provoking meditation inside a page turner of a book Karen Joy Fowler on The FutureThey had come from nowhere and now they were everywhereA few months after her mother dies the novelist Naomi Alderman sets up a wildlife camera in the back garden of her parents home It captures the first image of a strange new animal Low to the ground about the size of a badger flat face long trunk like nose Suddenly these mimmoths are as common as foxes or dogs And no one knows where they ve come from As Alderman negotiates the territory of grief a place with its own logic and rhythms the mimmoths spread From the UK east and west to the United States to Russia to India They seem harmless but oddly intelligent They cannot be captured they will not take food from humans they have their own purposes Alderman can