First Love
Gwendoline Riley
Rendered in dazzling prose, First Love is an account of the relationship between two catastrophically ill-suited people walking a precarious line between relative calm and explosive confrontation.
Read Time: ~5.9 hr
The Power
by Naomi Alderman (1998)
About this book
The Power by Naomi Alderman is an acclaimed literary masterpiece celebrating major critical honors and timeless storytelling.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraLate 20th Century
Protagonist / CoreNotable Characters
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