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Title: The Natural Way of Things
Author: Charlotte Wood
Narrator: Ailsa Piper
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-28-16
Publisher: Wavesound Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in an abandoned property in the middle of a desert. 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. But most of all, it is the story of two friends, their sisterly love and courage.
Critic Reviews:
"One hell of a novel by one of our most original and provocative writers" (The Weekend Australian)
Members Reviews:
Abandoned in Captivity
The Natural Way Of Things by Charlotte Wood is a multi-layered novel with many complex and well-developed characters. It begins as a mesmerizing tale of women in captivity. How did they get there? Who are their captors? Why were they selected for capture and extended confinement? The reader will be immediately presented with all these questions. Some will be answered as details are presented slowly and in an obscure manner as a tale of survival unfolds. Questions about some of the captivesâ backgrounds will only be answered by reader imagination. This tale of captivity, survival, and human cruelty is a modern-day horror story.
The number of characters is large. Charlotte Wood develops each character to illustrate a set of human frailties. How will each character react to extreme, life-threatening adversity? Will each character be able to appreciate her own change? The changes come about primarily to the women captives although there is one female captor as well as two males. The female captor character is well developed, the two males less so. Looking at the characters, we have:
Yolanda: She had a boyfriend, Robbie, who was only interested in himself. He may have had a hand in her captivity.
Verla: the political girl A lot of her time will be spent self-interpreting her dreams. This may have something to do with mushrooms. She feels superior to the other captives and is sure she will soon be released.
Isobell (Izzy): the airline girl.
Hetty: the cardinalâs girl.
Maitlynd: the school principalâs head girl.
Barbs: the rough, independent girl. She is injured early in the captivity to serve as an example to others.
Rhiannon: the gamer girl.
Lydia: the cruise ship girl.
Leandra: The Army girl.
Joy: The Asian girl, a singer.
All the captives have been judged to be promiscuous, loose, sluttish women with no morals. It is hinted to be the reason for their captivity. They have all been âhanded overâ by some significant other.
Nancy: She is not part of the captives, instead she works with Teddy and Bonce as a captor. Her role seems to be a nurse, that is the good news. The bad news is she has no medical training.
Teddy: One of the captors, a diver who likes his own company as he meditates. He canât avoid occasional interactions with Bonce and Nancy as they work together to manage the captives. Teddy and Nancy will have a romantic relationship; Teddy will not attempt to molest the other captives (at first).
Bonce: A captor and a thoroughly unlikeable guy. He would like to molest all the captives but is prevented from doing so by his boss, the unknowable and never to appear âHardings.â
The captive women wake up to the reality of their captivity. When they are finally able to communicate with each other, they relate to each other the moments just before they are âhanded overâ to an agent that transported them to the camp.
