If I'm really honest, Talulah Riley was the main draw to this book for me - from Channel 4's Nearly Famous, to St Trinians, to Elon Musk's wife, and then ex-wife, I had a feeling this could be a good read. Just so happened to read during Women's History Month too.
The Quickening begins in Oxford, with a group of 'weird' students with a manifesto for a radically different society. A couple of decades later, and that future is here. The Quickening shows life in a future that is fully female... think The Handmaid's Tale, but it's the women in charge, and it's not always pretty. Men are the underclass, everything about them is controlled by women, from strength to fertility. An interesting, subversive and dystopian tale that shows what life could be like if we suddenly flipped the switch.
Thanks to Readers First for the advance review copy!
The Quickening begins in Oxford, with a group of 'weird' students with a manifesto for a radically different society. A couple of decades later, and that future is here. The Quickening shows life in a future that is fully female... think The Handmaid's Tale, but it's the women in charge, and it's not always pretty. Men are the underclass, everything about them is controlled by women, from strength to fertility. An interesting, subversive and dystopian tale that shows what life could be like if we suddenly flipped the switch.
Thanks to Readers First for the advance review copy!