The inventiveness of The Power meets the intensity of The Girls: an exploration of power, ambition and the bonds between women

Her birth was mankind's greatest breakthrough. Her life is man's greatest threat.

Josephine Morrow is Girl One, the first of nine Miracle Babies conceived without male DNA on an experimental commune known as the Homestead.

The Girls were raised at the Homestead in the shadow of controversy – plagued by zealots calling them aberrations – until a suspicious fire claimed the lives of three people, leaving the survivors to scatter across the United States.

Years later, upon learning that her mother has gone missing, Josie sets off on a desperate road trip, tracking down the only people who might help: her estranged sisters. Tracing clues her mother left behind, they journey back through their past, uncovering secrets about their origins and unlocking devastating abilities they never knew they had. But someone out there is determined to stop Josie reaching the truth about what really happened at that ranch – and where her mother is now.

A rousing tale of love, ambition, power, and the extraordinary bonds of sisterhood, Girl One combines the provocative imagination of Naomi Alderman’s The Power with the compelling, atmospheric storytelling of The Girls.

"A gripping and original exploration of sisterhood and identity" - Vogue

"If The Handmaid’s Tale and the Marvel Cinematic Universe had a baby, the result would probably look something like this feminist sci-fi thriller" - Harper's Bazaar

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Netflix, please make this into a series

"Long fascinated by the idea of virgin birth, Sara Flannery Murphy has used the subject to craft her own chilling, page-turning speculative thriller" - Living Magazine

"A masterpiece of controlled tension and revelation" - Daily Mail

"The novel may remind many of [The Handmaid’s Tale], which is also set in a dystopian future and tackles issues of reproduction for women" - Mail Online

"A fantastic tale of a super-powered girl desperately searching for her missing mother" - Take a Break

"A highly imaginative and enjoyable novel that looks at motherhood, love and power, in a highly suspenseful and thrilling setting" - Good Reading Magazine

"With a plot that races along, this is an imaginative and seductive supernatural novel that examines love, loss and terrifying obsession" - Daily Mail

"Murphy unspools a creepingly clever ghost story that encompasses thriller, horror and literary fiction with seductive swagger … You’re delivered into an entirely compelling world with all the intoxicating imagination and white-knuckle plotting of high-Victorian sensation fiction … A simmering gothic joy" - Guardian

"A masterful blend of sci-fi, thriller and feminism in this tale of power and sisterhood" - Woman's Own

"A deeply compelling reflection on the nature of humanity and the magnetism of familial connection. A truly feminist mystery exploring parthenogenesis and its implications both on microcosmic and macrocosmic scales. Sara Flannery Murphy is a fresh new voice" - Aurealis Review