Finally some instinct rises. She runs her tongue over her teeth, furred like her mind. 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.’
A story told over three seasons that reveals long-hidden truths about power, morality and judgment. 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.
Tickets on sale from 1 February for our first 2018 Berry Conversation with Charlotte Wood and Susan Wyndham to be held:
Date: 25th March, 2018
Venue: The Berry Public School
Time: 3.00pm
Purchase from the Berry Music Centre or through www.trybooking.com.au. For all enquiries, please email berryconversations@gmail.com
Leave a Reply