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Charlotte Wood has been described as one of Australia’s most original and provocative writers. She is the author of six novels and two books of non-fiction. Her latest novel, The Natural Way of Things, won the 2016 Stella Prize, the 2016 Indie Book of the Year and Novel of the Year, was joint winner of the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction, and has been published throughout Europe, the UK and North America. Her non-fiction books include The Writer’s Room, a collection of interviews with authors about the creative process, and Love & Hunger, a book about cooking.
Her features and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Literary Hub, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Saturday Paper, among other publications. Her new novel THE WEEKEND will be published in Australia in 2019, and the USA and UK in 2020.
‘With a fearless clarity, Wood’s elegantly spare and brutal prose dissects humanity, hatreds, our ambivalent capacities for friendship and betrayal, and the powerful appearance–always–of moments of grace and great beauty … It will not leave you easily; it took my breath away.’ Ashley Hay, author of A Hundred Small Lessons
‘It is, unfortunately, never a bad time to discuss the persistence of violence committed against women, and the perceived ownership of women’s bodies. Wood comes at the issue with a fresh, thrilling perspective: that of a dystopian novelist, one who constructs worlds in dire disrepair, but woefully similar to our own.” Huffington Post
‘The Natural Way of Things is a prescient feminist horror novel you need to read.’ Jezebel
‘While there are definite hints of Atwood there, The Natural Way of Things is definitely its own animal.’ BookRiot
‘An absorbing plot, lyrical prose, and discomfiting imagery makes Wood’s novel decidedly gripping.’ Kirkus Reviews
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