{"product_id":"the-natural-way-of-things","title":"The Natural Way of Things","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Stella Prize and the Best Fiction and Overall Book of the Year at the Independent Bookseller AwardsShortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary AwardLonglisted for the Miles Franklin Literary AwardShe\u003cbr\u003e\n hears her own thick voice deep inside her ears when she says, 'I need \u003cbr\u003e\nto know where I am.' The man stands there, tall and narrow, hand still \u003cbr\u003e\non the doorknob, surprised. He says, almost in sympathy, 'Oh, sweetie. \u003cbr\u003e\nYou need to know what you are.'Two women awaken from a \u003cbr\u003e\ndrugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in a broken-down property in\u003cbr\u003e\n the middle of a desert. Strangers to each other, they have no idea \u003cbr\u003e\nwhere they are or how they came to be there with eight other girls, \u003cbr\u003e\nforced to wear strange uniforms, their heads shaved, guarded by two \u003cbr\u003e\ninept yet vicious armed jailers and a 'nurse'. The girls all have \u003cbr\u003e\nsomething in common, but what is it? What crime has brought them here \u003cbr\u003e\nfrom the city? Who is the mysterious security company responsible for \u003cbr\u003e\nthis desolate place with its brutal rules, its total isolation from the \u003cbr\u003e\ncontemporary world?Doing hard labour under a sweltering sun, the \u003cbr\u003e\nprisoners soon learn what links them: in each girl's past is a sexual \u003cbr\u003e\nscandal with a powerful man. They pray for rescue - but when the food \u003cbr\u003e\nstarts running out it becomes clear that the jailers have also become \u003cbr\u003e\nthe jailed. The girls can only rescue themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"charlotte wood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44213603532860,"sku":"9781760291877","price":1347.5,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/7706\/7836\/files\/the-natural-way-of-things-9781760291877.jpg?v=1776714015","url":"https:\/\/libertybooksstore.myshopify.com\/products\/the-natural-way-of-things","provider":"LibertyBooksStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}