The Strangers
$27.99
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
22 September 2026
Summary
From the bestselling, Women’s Prize-winning author of The Power, a wildly audacious, deeply moving new novel that follows a writer wrestling with grief even as a new species is discovered, forcing humans to reconsider what it means to share our planet.
They had come from nowhere, and now they were everywhere.
A 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 strang…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241845080 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241845084 |
| Author: | Naomi Alderman |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Fig Tree |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 22 September 2026 |
| Weight: | 292g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 135mm x 213mm |
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Critics Review
Compulsively engrossing … draws us into an uncanny world of hurt and tenderness. Speculative fiction with brains and heart * Emma Donoghue *
A profoundly strange and deeply marvellous book about grief. It’s been pure joy to live for a while inside Naomi Alderman’s brain * Lucy Worsley, author of Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman: *
What a glowing, remarkable, brilliant gift of a book! Truly what the world needs now * Laurie Frankel, author of This Is How It Always Is and Enormous Wings *
Bold and uncompromising … interrogates pain at the source without searching for a neat encapsulation … the result is something wonderful * Irish Times *
‘Utterly compelling … I love [Naomi’s] writing, I love her mind’ * Nigella Lawson *
In the same way that a gravestone is an attempt to give form to an absence, Alderman’s structural ingenuity allows the reader to wrangle some of the ineffable aspects of grief into something more coherent and bounded * Guardian *
Her most personal work yet … A must-read for anyone who has ever loved and lost * Harper’s Bazaar *
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 *
An entirely new species of writing about grief. I loved this weird, warm-blooded, and inquisitive book * Eleanor Catton, author of Birnam Wood and The Luminaries *
A multi-layered treat of a novel, wise, honest and wonderfully strange. I loved it * Sarah Waters *
Naomi Alderman
Naomi Alderman holds degrees in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, Classical Studies, Creative Writing, and Classics. She is an award-winning novelist, broadcaster, TV producer, and videogame creator with over 20 years of experience in technology startups.
Her bestselling novel, The Power, was a book of the year for Bill Gates and Barack Obama and was adapted into a TV series for Amazon Prime. Her other novels include The Future, The Liars’ Gospel, The Lessons, and Disobedience.
She is also the co-creator of the fitness game and audio adventure Zombies, Run!, which boasts over ten million players. Naomi writes and presents Human Intelligence, a history of thinking series on BBC Radio 4.
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