STONE YARD DEVOTIONAL

Stone Yard Devotional is an extraordinary novel of leaving your life behind. Short listed for the 2024 booker Prize.

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...

Stone Yard Devotional - Charlotte Wood - 9781399724388