The natural way of things
Wood, Charlotte, 1965-2015
Book
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.
Main title:
The natural way of things / Charlotte Wood.
Author:
Wood, Charlotte, 1965-, author
Imprint:
Sydney Allen & Unwin, 2015.©2015
Collation:
315 pages ; 21 cm.
Series title:
Stella Prize [literary award] ; 2016.Prime Minister's Literary Award ; 2016
ISBN:
1760111236
Dewey class:
A823.3823.9
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
57651