She ends up in the care of nuns in a remote convent in South Carolina. She listens to a voice in her head that directs her to escape to freedom. Using her newfound power, she kills her foster father while he is raping her. Growing up in the South amid the abuses of foster care, Allie finally rebels. The novel’s perspective moves between these four characters chapter to chapter as each adjusts to the new reality of women able to incapacitate any threat through electrical shocks, even as scientists struggle to explain the development of the dangerous new muscle called a skein. The work, grounded in Armon’s research into obscure archives, focuses on four characters: Allie Montgomery-Taylor, a 14-year old American girl and a product of the abuse within the foster care system Roxy Munke, the teenaged daughter of a British underworld drug kingpin Margot Cleary, an ambitious Midwestern politician and Nigerian Olatunde Edo, an investigative journalist savvy in social media.

Historian and amateur novelist Neil Adam Armon has completed a fictional account of the world in the last ten years of the old age some five-thousand years earlier before the emergence of women as the dominant gender. The study guide cites the 2016 Little Brown paperback edition.

The novel won the U.K.’s prestigious Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction, awarded annually to the most outstanding English-language novel about women by a woman. Tapping into the international craze generated by the Hulu series based on Atwood’s work, Alderman’s novel became an international best seller and was optioned as a series on Amazon Prime. He is negotiating to find a publisher for the novel. A historian five-thousand years in the future has written a historical novel about the ten years leading up to an unspecified global catastrophe that hurled humanity back to the “Stone Age” and from which emerged the new world of empowered women.

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