WinnerĢ016 Prime Minister's Literary Award in Fiction An Australian Indie Best Fiction Book & Overall Book of the Year Winner Finalist The Natural Way of Things is a lucid and illusory fable and a brilliantly plotted novel of ideas that reminds us of mankind's own vast contradictions-the capacity for savagery, selfishness, resilience, and redemption all contained by a single, vulnerable body. Drawing strength from the animal instincts they're forced to rely on, the women go from hunted to hunters, along the way becoming unforgettable and boldly original literary heroines that readers will both relate to and root for. Starved, sedated, the girls can't be sure of anything-except the painful episodes in their pasts that link them. Down a hallway echoing loudly with the voices of mysterious men, in a stark compound deep in the Australian outback, other captive women are just coming to.
Verla, a young woman who seems vaguely familiar, sits nearby.
As the Guardian writes, "contemporary feminism may have found its masterpiece of horror." Drugged, dressed in old-fashioned rags, and fiending for a cigarette, Yolanda wakes up in a barren room. Most of all, it is the story of two friends, their sisterly love and courage"-from author's website.īook Synopsis "A Handmaid's Tale for the 21st century" (Prism Magazine), Wood's dystopian tale about a group of young women held prisoner in the Australian desert is a prescient feminist fable for our times.
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. In each girl's past is a sexual scandal with a powerful man. Strangers to each other, they have no idea where they are, or how they came to be there with eight other girls. About the Book "Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in a broken-down property in the middle of a desert.
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