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'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 Russi