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THE NATURAL WAY OF THINGS

Charlotte Wood

Shortlisted for the Indie Book of the year 2016
Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2016
Winner of the Stella Prize 2016.
Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award

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.

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DER NATueRLICHE LAUF DER DINGE
Deutsch von Gaby Wurster
[HC Arctis 01/17]
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Published 2015-10-01 by Allen & Unwin

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UK: Allen & Unwin (June 2016); USA: Europa Editions; Spanish: Lumen; Turkish: Yurt Kitap; Poland: Wydawnictwo Kobiece; Holland: Nieuw Amsterdam; France: JC Lattes;

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Joint winner of the fiction prize in the Prime Minister's Literary Awards. Read more...

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Optioned for film by independant producers Katia Nizic and Emma Dockery. Read more...

Charlotte Wood's brilliant novel wins the Stella Prize 2016: "With an unflinching eye and audacious imagination, Charlotte Wood carries us from a nightmare of helplessness and despair to a fantasy of revenge and reckoning. The Natural Way of Things is a riveting and necessary act of critique." Read more...