Stone Yard Devotional A Novel

Charlotte Wood

eBook - 2025

Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, a novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be good, from the award-winning author of The Weekend.“Stone Yard Devotional is as extraordinary as you’ve heard.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post“An exquisite, wrenching novel of leaving your life behind.” —Lauren Christensen, New York Times"Meditative (but by no means uneventful)." —New York TimesBurnt 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. She doesn't believe in God, or know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive existence almost by a...ccident.But disquiet interrupts this secluded life with three visitations. First comes a terrible mouse plague, each day signaling a new battle against the... more