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The Natural Way of Things

The Natural Way of Things

by Charlotte Wood and Sam Redman
Paperback
Publication Date: 02/06/2016

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She hears her own thick voice deep inside her ears when she says, 'I need to know where I am.' The man stands there, tall and narrow, hand still on the doorknob, surprised. He says, almost in sympathy, 'Oh, sweetie. You need to know what you are.' Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in a broken-down property in the middle of a desert. Strangers to each other, they have no idea where they are or how they came to be there with eight other girls, forced to wear strange uniforms, their heads shaved, guarded by two inept yet vicious armed jailers and a 'nurse'. The girls all have something in common, but what is it? What crime has brought them here from the city? Who is the mysterious security company responsible for this desolate place with its brutal rules, its total isolation from the contemporary world? Doing hard labour under a sweltering sun, the prisoners soon learn what links them: in each girl's past is a sexual scandal with a powerful man. They pray for rescue - but when the food starts running out it becomes clear that the jailers have also become the jailed. The girls can only rescue themselves. The Natural Way of Things is a gripping, starkly imaginative exploration of contemporary misogyny and corporate control, and of what it means to hunt and be hunted. Most of all, it is the story of two friends, their sisterly love and courage.
ISBN:
9781760291877
9781760291877
Category:
Fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
02-06-2016
Publisher:
ALLEN & UNWIN
Country of origin:
Australia
Charlotte Wood

The Australian newspaper has described Charlotte Wood as 'one of our most original and provocative writers'. She is the author of five novels and a book of non- fiction.

Her latest novel, The Natural Way of Things, won the 2016 Stella, Indie Book of the Year and Indie Fiction Book of the Year prizes, and has been shortlisted the Victorian Premier's Literary Miles Franklin Awards. It will be published in the UK and North America in 2016. Charlotte was also editor of the short story anthology Brothers and Sisters, and for three years edited The Writer's Room Interviews magazine.

Her work has been shortlisted for various prizes including the Christina Stead, Kibble and Miles Franklin Awards. Two novels - The Children and The Natural Way of Things - have been optioned for feature films.

Photo: Wendy McDougall

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