https:\/\/www.charlottewood.com.au\/<\/a><\/p>\nWhat music do they like?<\/h3>\n
This is certainly not my favourite song or anything like it, but my new novel is about a bunch of teenage girls imprisoned in an abandoned sheep station in the middle of the bush.\u00a0I wanted to find a sort of anthem for them, which had to be a very middle of the road song they would all know and be able to sing along to. Adele\u2019s Rolling in\u00a0the Deep<\/em> is exactly right\u00a0\u2013\u00a0it has a scorned young woman\u2019s sentimentality but also a deep, rich, sustaining anger and power in that tribal sort of drumbeat. The film clip is a bit nothing but the song works hugely for me. Every time\u00a0I listen to it\u00a0I get fired up to go back to the book and look after\u00a0\u2018my girls\u2019.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Charlotte Wood is the author of four novels and a work of non-fiction. Her latest work is a book of essays on cooking,\u00a0Love & Hunger: Thoughts\u00a0on the Gift of Food<\/em>.\u00a0Her last novel,\u00a0Animal People<\/em>, won the People’s Choice medal in the 2013 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, was shortlisted for\u00a0the 2013 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and longlisted for the 2012\u00a0Miles Franklin Literary Award.\u00a0Her earlier novels were also shortlisted for various prizes, including the\u00a0Miles Franklin Award and regional Commonwealth Writers\u2019 Prize.\u00a0She is also editor of\u00a0The Writer’s Room Interviews<\/em>, a bimonthly digital magazine of conversations with Australian writers. Her fifth novel, about ten teenaged girls trapped in a strange prison in remote outback Australia, will be published in November this year.<\/p>\n