Product Description
Stone Yard Devotional
Author: Charlotte Wood
Format: Paperback
⭐ SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 ⭐
Burnt out and in need of retreat, a middle-aged woman leaves Sydney to return to the place she grew up, taking refuge in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of rural Australia.
But disquiet soon interrupts this secluded life. First, the skeletal remains of a sister who disappeared decades before are returned to the monastery, resurfacing years of grief and pain. And then, an unexpected and troubling visitor plunges the narrator further into her past…
‘The fact that Stone Yard Devotional not only stays aloft but soars would seem to deny the laws of literary physics’ — Ron Charles, Washington Post
‘A beautiful, mature work that does not flinch from life’ — Sunday Times
‘Exquisite, wrenching’ — New York Times
‘I have rarely been so absorbed by a novel’ — Guardian
‘It leaves the reader feeling kinder, more brave, enlarged’ — Anne Enright
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