“Isobel Askell the airline girl, then Hetty the cardinal’s girl … Maitlynd the school principal’s ‘head girl’… that morose gamer girl Rhiannon, the one called Codebabe and the wanking mascot for every nasty little gamer creep in the country. Gradually they realise what they have in common: all have been involved in sex scandals with powerful men. Any request for explanations is met with beatings. The women are put to hard labour, and their two male guards treat them impersonally, sometimes brutally. The area inside is several miles across large enough to contain an entire ecosystem, including not only cockatoos and poisonous snakes but troops of kangaroos. The compound is surrounded by a 30ft fence so powerfully electrified that a single touch leaves crippling burns. There are no telephones, no computers, no neighbours. A t the beginning of The Natural Way of Things, 10 young women wake from a drugged sleep to find they’ve been abducted and taken to a derelict sheep-shearing station somewhere in the Australian outback.
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