Stone Yard Devotional A Novel

Charlotte Wood

eBook - 2025

A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEARA WASHINGTON POST TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEARA LOS ANGELES TIMES TOP FIFTEEN BOOK OF THE YEARShortlisted 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.” —The Washington Post“An exquisite, wrenching novel of leaving your life behind.” —New York Times Book Review"Meditative (but by no means uneventful)." —New York Times"Riveting prose about how humans beat back despair."—Los Angeles 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 religio...us community hidden away on the stark plains of rural Australia. She doesn't believe in God, or know what prayer is,... more