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Stone Yard Devotional

A Novel

A Novel

A Novel

A Novel

By Charlotte Wood

By Charlotte Wood

By Charlotte Wood

By Charlotte Wood

By Charlotte Wood

By Charlotte Wood

By Charlotte Wood

By Charlotte Wood

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Feb 11, 2025 | ISBN 9780593453629

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Feb 11, 2025 | ISBN 9798217047352

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Feb 11, 2025 | ISBN 9798217047376

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    About Stone Yard Devotional

    Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, a novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be good.

    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. She doesn’t believe in God, or know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive existence almost by accident.

    But disquiet interrupts this secluded life with three visitations. First comes a terrible mouse plague, each day signaling a new battle against the rising infestation. Second is the return of the skeletal remains of a sister who disappeared decades before, presumed murdered. And finally, a troubling visitor plunges the narrator further back into her past.

    Meditative, moving, and finely observed, Stone Yard Devotional is a seminal novel from a writer of rare power, exploring what it means to retreat from the world, the true nature of forgiveness, and the sustained effect of grief on the human soul.

    About Stone Yard Devotional

    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.

    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. She doesn’t believe in God, or know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive existence almost by accident.

    But disquiet interrupts this secluded life with three visitations. First comes a terrible mouse plague, each day signaling a new battle against the rising infestation. Second is the return of the skeletal remains of a sister who disappeared decades before, presumed murdered. And finally, a troubling visitor plunges the narrator further back into her past.

    Meditative, moving, and finely observed, Stone Yard Devotional is a seminal novel from a writer of rare power, exploring what it means to retreat from the world, the true nature of forgiveness, and the sustained effect of grief on the human soul.

    About Stone Yard Devotional

    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.

    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. She doesn’t believe in God, or know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive existence almost by accident.

    But disquiet interrupts this secluded life with three visitations. First comes a terrible mouse plague, each day signaling a new battle against the rising infestation. Second is the return of the skeletal remains of a sister who disappeared decades before, presumed murdered. And finally, a troubling visitor plunges the narrator further back into her past.

    Meditative, moving, and finely observed, Stone Yard Devotional is a seminal novel from a writer of rare power, exploring what it means to retreat from the world, the true nature of forgiveness, and the sustained effect of grief on the human soul.

    About Stone Yard Devotional

    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.

    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. She doesn’t believe in God, or know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive existence almost by accident.

    But disquiet interrupts this secluded life with three visitations. First comes a terrible mouse plague, each day signaling a new battle against the rising infestation. Second is the return of the skeletal remains of a sister who disappeared decades before, presumed murdered. And finally, a troubling visitor plunges the narrator further back into her past.

    Meditative, moving, and finely observed, Stone Yard Devotional is a seminal novel from a writer of rare power, exploring what it means to retreat from the world, the true nature of forgiveness, and the sustained effect of grief on the human soul.

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    About Charlotte Wood

    Charlotte Wood is the author of seven novels and three books of nonfiction. Her 2016 novel The Natural Way of Things won the Stella Prize in her native Australia and was joint winner of the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award… More about Charlotte Wood

    About Charlotte Wood

    Charlotte Wood is the author of seven novels and three books of nonfiction. Her 2016 novel The Natural Way of Things won the Stella Prize in her native Australia and was joint winner of the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award… More about Charlotte Wood

    About Charlotte Wood

    Charlotte Wood is the author of seven novels and three books of nonfiction. Her 2016 novel The Natural Way of Things won the Stella Prize in her native Australia and was joint winner of the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award… More about Charlotte Wood

    About Charlotte Wood

    Charlotte Wood is the author of seven novels and three books of nonfiction. Her 2016 novel The Natural Way of Things won the Stella Prize in her native Australia and was joint winner of the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award… More about Charlotte Wood

    Product Details

    Category: Women’s Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Large Print | $30.00
    Published by Random House Large Print
    Feb 11, 2025 | 304 Pages | 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9780593453629

    Category: Women’s Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Hardcover | $28.00
    Published by Riverhead Books
    Feb 11, 2025 | 304 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9798217047352

    Category: Women’s Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $14.99
    Published by Riverhead Books
    Feb 11, 2025 | 304 Pages | ISBN 9798217047376

    Category: Women’s Fiction | Literary Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $20.00
    Published by Penguin Audio
    Feb 11, 2025 | 540 Minutes | ISBN 9798217081066

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    Praise

    Praise for Stone Yard Devotional:

    “Stone Yard Devotional is about one woman’s inward journey to make sense of the world and her life when conflicts and chaos are abundant in both realms. . . A fierce and philosophical interrogation of history, memory, nature, and human existence.”  —Booker Prize judges’ remarks

    I have rarely been so absorbed by a novel . . . A powerful, generous book.”  —Guardian

    “A book about what it means to be good: simply and with great humility, it asks the big questions, leaving the reader feeling kinder, more brave, enlarged.” —Anne Enright

    “A novel of austere contemplation and personal devastation, its narrative driven by moral crisis rather than worldly action …. reflections on mortality seep into its fabric. For this is not a book of answers. Rather, it is a challenge: about how to be in the world, and how to be alone.”—Times Literary Supplement

    “A beautiful, mature work that does not flinch from life.” —Sunday Times

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