num_pages: 256
description: One day a boy in a nice silver car gives sixteen-year-old Karuna a ride. So Karuna returns the favour. Eventually Karuna cant ignore the reality: she is pregnant. Incensed her mother already over-protective confines her to their fourteenth-storey housing-commission flat for one hundred days to protect her from the outside world  and make sure she cant get into any more trouble. Stuck inside for endless hours Karuna battles her mother and herself for a sense of power in her own life as a new life forms and grows within her. One Hundred Days is a fractured fairytale exploring the fault lines between love and control. At times tense and claustrophobic it also brims with humour warmth and character. It is a magnificent new work from one of Australias most celebrated writers.
language: English
title: One Hundred Days
publisher: Black Inc. Books