![]() Their heads are shaved, they are forced to wear humiliating clothing and are made to do hard labour. The ten women are held prisoner in a remote camp surrounded by an electrified fence. Wood’s women have stories with some similarities to the sexual harassment and rape scandals that have been the subject of innumerable media articles in recent Australian history. Soon she meets Verla and eight other women, and realises they all have been either publicly mocked for their naïveté at being taken advantage of or shamed for consorting with powerful men who are too weak to own the consequences of their dalliances, and who have the wherewithal to dispose of their embarrassment. Birds are singing, she is craving a cigarette and she has no idea where she is or how she got there. In Charlotte Wood’s harrowing, edgy novel, the unthinkable has happened – Yolanda wakes wearing strange, rough clothes and finds herself in a locked room. How convenient it would be for many men who have wooed beautiful young girls to bed if they could dispose of them when their existence became awkward. ![]()
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