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The Natural Way of Things (10th anniversary edition)

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Winner of the 2016 Stella Prize
Co-winner of the 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Award Fiction prize
Winner of 2016 Indie Award's Fiction Book of the Year and Book of the Year

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. Most of all, it is the story of two friends, their sisterly love and courage.

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. 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.

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Format

Hardback

Publisher

Allen & Unwin

Country

Australia

Date

30 September 2025

Pages

320

ISBN

9781761473005

Winner of the 2016 Stella Prize
Co-winner of the 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Award Fiction prize
Winner of 2016 Indie Award's Fiction Book of the Year and Book of the Year

Format

Hardback

Publisher

Allen & Unwin

Country

Australia

Date

30 September 2025

Pages

320

ISBN

9781761473005

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