![]() ![]() "It started to come alive: the writing had an energy and there was material there. To stir herself up, she tried writing it in the near future. ![]() She began a story set in the '60s but found her writing was dead on the page, "that awful sludgy feeling where nothing is working". Wood did not want to write a literal story about the Hay Institution, which had been covered in memoirs and a play by Alana Valentine. One reason many of them were there was they had been sexually abused or assaulted in some way and they told someone about it, so then it was 'they are promiscuous'." The girls were talked about as sluts and 'they deserved to be there'. "Nothing that happens in my books is anywhere near what happened to those girls. ![]() "The people in Hay could hear great screams at night," Wood says. The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood. ![]()
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