The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood ISBN 9781925268317, 1925268314 instant download

The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood ISBN 9781925268317, 1925268314 instant download

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 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.
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.