

* The Australian, Best Books of 2015 * Bold, provocative, startling and insightful, The Natural Way of Things is what fiction should be. * The Saturday Paper, Best Books of 2015 * Confronting, confounding novel of mysteriously kidnapped and imprisoned women. * Townsville Bulletin * The kind of book you inhale in a sitting. Charlotte Wood's is a unique, original voice that soothes and shocks in equal measures in this pitch-perfect dystopian nightmare. * Guardian * How each character copes with their unusual incarceration is fascinating. With an unflinching eye and audacious imagination, Charlotte Wood carries us from a nightmare of helplessness and despair to a fantasy of revenge and reckoning. Exposing the threads of misogyny, cowardice and abuses of power embedded in contemporary society, this is a confronting, sometimes deeply painful novel to read.
