One day, young women all around the world become physically stronger than men. This power eventually spreads to all women. The premise of the book ( I think ) is that women's oppression is founded in men's physical strength so what happens once that is reversed?
Bad things.
Somehow I thought women would be more noble and compassionate when they held all the power. Spoiler: they are not.
The book won the Bailey's Prize for Women's Fiction (British award) and when reviewed by the Washington Post, it was called "our era's Handmaid's Tale." I wondered if the author's intention was not to show what women would do if they were more powerful but rather to ask us to view the actions of men through female characters.
I found myself very disgusted with various characters but when I took a step back, these women are just doing what men in power do every day. All that time. Since the beginning of time.
Worth the read.
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