The Natural Way of Things
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Winner of the Stella Prize
Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction
Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award
Shortlisted Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
Shortlisted for International Dublin Literary Award
Observer Books of the Year 2016
'Beautiful and savage - think Atwood in the outback.' Paula Hawkins,…
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1 author picked The Natural Way of Things as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This Stella prize-winning novel is so mysterious, the ominous atmosphere shudders off the page.
It’s a modern-day parable about ten women who are abducted and held prisoner in the Australian desert. Gradually they realised the common thread between them is they’ve all been involved in a sex scandal with a powerful man.
Wood ingeniously takes to the patriarchy with a blow torch. It’s breathtakingly powerful. Reading the final line, I shut my eyes and my heart hurt. In a good way.
"Would it be said they were abandoned or taken, the way people said a girl was attacked, a woman…
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