Publisher's synopsis
Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in an abandoned property in the middle of a desert in a story of two friends, sisterly love and courage – a gripping, starkly imaginative exploration of contemporary misogyny and corporate control, and of what it means to hunt and be hunted.
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.
With extraordinary echoes of The Handmaid’s Tale and Lord of the Flies, The Natural Way of Things is a compulsively readable, scarifying and deeply moving contemporary novel. It confirms Charlotte Wood’s position as one of our most thoughtful, provocative and fearless truth-tellers, as she unflinchingly reveals us and our world to ourselves.
Awards
- Shortlisted Christina Stead Prize for Fiction – NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2017 AU
- Highly Commended James Tiptree Jr Literary Award 2017 US
- Long-listed Voss Literary Prize 2016 AU
- Long-listed Nita B Kibble Award for an Established Author 2016 AU
- Short-listed Barbara Jefferis Award 2016 AU
- Short-listed Queensland Literary Award – Fiction Category 2016 AU
- Short-listed Miles Franklin Literary Award 2016 AU
- Short-listed Australian Book Industry Awards – Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2016 AU
- Short-listed ABA Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award 2016 AU
- Short-listed Victorian Premier’s Literary Award – Fiction Category 2016 AU
- Winner Prime Minister’s Literary Awards – Fiction Category 2016 AU
- Winner ABIA People’s Choice Awards – Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2016 AU
- Winner The Stella Prize 2016 AU; Winner Indie Book Awards – Best Fiction 2016 AU
- Winner Indie Book of the Year 2016 AU
