I read The Natural Way of Things in one sitting several weeks ago and it kicked up a lot of dust that is only now settling. Shortlisted, 2016 Queensland Literary Award for Fiction Shortlisted, 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards Shortlisted, 2016 Miles Franklin Literary Award ‘With a fearless clarity, Wood’s elegantly spare and brutal prose dissects humanity, hatreds, our ambivalent capacities for friendship and betrayal, and the powerful appearance–always–of moments of grace and great beauty … It will not leave you easily it took my breath away.’–Ashley Hay, author of A Hundred Small Lessons 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. 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. Most of all, it is the story of two friends, their sisterly love and courage. 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. Winner, Fiction Book of the Year and Book of the Year 2016 Indie Awards**
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