Ten young women, all of them notorious for – and blamed for – media-inflated sexual scandals involving exploitation, abuse, and betrayal by powerful men, have been drugged, kidnapped, and bundled off to a remote facility in some unnamed location, where they are bullied and menaced by a couple of gormless guards. Change them around, mix them up, and transform them into one strong story, something original, new, and whole. You take bits and pieces of things from all over: stories, facts, images, dreams, people you've known, events you've witnessed, ideas you've had, conclusions to which you've come. But The Natural Way of Things is a superb object lesson in the difference between non-fiction and fiction, and in the way the creative process works. It was a hotpot of memoir, essay and recipe about the joy of cooking and of feeding people. Charlotte Wood's previous book was called Love & Hunger.
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