One day a boy in a nice silver car gives sixteen-year-old Karuna a ride. So Karuna returns the favour, except she doesn’t have a nice silver car . . .

Eventually, Karuna can’t ignore the reality: she is pregnant. Incensed, her mother, already overprotective, confines her to their fourteenth-storey housing-commission flat for one hundred days, to protect her from the outside world – and make sure she can’t 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 is nevertheless brimming with humour, warmth and character. It is a magnificent new work from one of Australia’s most celebrated writers.