The Natural Way of Things: From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Stone Yard Devotional
Jun 2019 · Hachette UK
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From the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted novel Stone Yard Devotional
'Savage: think Atwood in the outback'
PAULA HAWKINS
'An unforgettable reading experience'
LIANE MORIARTY
'Ferocious . . . recalls the early Elena Ferrante'
NPR
'A masterpiece'
GUARDIAN
'Devastating'
ECONOMIST
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 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, their heads shaved, guarded by two inept yet vicious jailers.
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 as the hours turn into days and the days into weeks and months, it becomes clear only the girls can rescue themselves.
Praise for Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
'A beautiful, mature work that does not flinch from life'
SUNDAY TIMES
'A transfixing novel'
FINANCIAL TIMES
'A book about what it means to be good: simply and with great humility, it asks the big questions, leaving the reader feeling kinder, more brave, enlarged'
ANNE ENRIGHT
'I have rarely been so absorbed by a novel . . . A powerful, generous book'
GUARDIAN
'Savage: think Atwood in the outback'
PAULA HAWKINS
'An unforgettable reading experience'
LIANE MORIARTY
'Ferocious . . . recalls the early Elena Ferrante'
NPR
'A masterpiece'
GUARDIAN
'Devastating'
ECONOMIST
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 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, their heads shaved, guarded by two inept yet vicious jailers.
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 as the hours turn into days and the days into weeks and months, it becomes clear only the girls can rescue themselves.
Praise for Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
'A beautiful, mature work that does not flinch from life'
SUNDAY TIMES
'A transfixing novel'
FINANCIAL TIMES
'A book about what it means to be good: simply and with great humility, it asks the big questions, leaving the reader feeling kinder, more brave, enlarged'
ANNE ENRIGHT
'I have rarely been so absorbed by a novel . . . A powerful, generous book'
GUARDIAN
About the author
Charlotte Wood is the author of seven novels and three books of non-fiction. Her novel Stone Yard Devotional was shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize. Earlier novels include The Natural Way of Things, which won the 2016 Stella Prize and was joint winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction, and The Weekend, which was an international bestseller. Her features and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Guardian, Literary Hub and Sydney Morning Herald, among others. Charlotte lives in Sydney with her husband.
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