The have their heads shaved, and are forced to dress in coarse, old fashioned tunics and bonnets that blinker their vision. They are all strangers, yet they’ve seen each other before-they’re infamous, women made scapegoats in ugly sex crimes. Ten young women are being held captive on the station-’Hardings International: Dignity and Respect in a Safe Environment’, they learn from the inscription printed on their dinner bowls. They don’t know why they’ve been brought to this place. Yolanda and Verla wake from a drugged sleep to find themselves on a rundown sheep station in the middle of the Australian outback. She cannot know where she is, or why, and yet something in her knows her survival depends on this electric white question.
He says, almost in sympathy, ‘Oh, sweetie.
The man stands there, tall and narrow, hand still on the doorknob, surprised. Margot McGovern reviews Charlotte Wood’s unnerving tale of women held hostage, The Natural Way of Things (Allen & Unwin, Oct.
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