The natural way of things / Charlotte Wood.
Publisher: Crows Nest, N.S.W. Allen & Unwin, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 315 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- still image
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781760111236 (paperback)
- Thrillers (Fiction).
- Suspense fiction
- Dystopias.
- Dystopias
- Australian fiction.
- Suspense fiction.
- Dystopias
- Suspense fiction -- Adult fiction -- Print
- Suspense fiction.
- Suspense fiction
- Thrillers (Fiction).
- Dystopias.
- Suspense fiction.
- Dystopias.
- Suspense fiction
- Australian fiction
- Suspense fiction.
- Dystopias.
- A823.4 23
- PR9619.3.W625 N38 2015
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2016 Shortlist: Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2017 Shortlist
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Jessie Street National Women's Library | 823.4 WOO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library and ILL | 67466 |
Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in a broken-down property in the middle of a desert. 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.
Miles Franklin Literary Award 2016 Shortlist:
Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2017 Shortlist
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