![]() ![]() ![]() One of the ideas of the novel is that women – if we could be in a position to physically hurt people – would be all lovely all the time. I was very thrilled because a rejection letter is what proper writers get.”īut back to our interview about The Power. She recalls how her first ever rejection letter was from Doctor Who magazine when she was 14. “That has been an ambition of mine for decades.” “I would love to write for Doctor Who on the telly – and you can put that in this piece!” says Alderman. ![]() She did, after all, write a Doctor Who spin off novel starring Matt Smith’s incarnation of the Time Lord in 2011. When I suggest that it all that sounds a bit like a plotline from Doctor Who, Alderman nods enthusiastically. Her gripping book – described by the judges as a “brilliantly imagined dystopia” – explores a future in which women have the ability to give electric shocks at will – often with deadly results – and men live in fear. We are in the green room at London’s Festival Hall where, just a few minutes earlier, Alderman was announced as this year’s winner of the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction for her sci-fi novel The Power. “My legs are a bit trembly – like after you’ve had a sudden shock,” says Naomi Alderman, without realising the pun she’s just made. ![]()
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