⭐ SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 ⭐⭐ A NEW YORK TIMES '10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR' PICK ⭐ Washington Post's Top Ten Books of the Year 2025Los Angeles Times 15 Best Books of 2025New York Public Library's Books of the Year 2025A Book of the Year 2024 for the Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald, ABC and BookRiot'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 EnrightBurnt 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...⭐ Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award⭐ Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year⭐ Shortlisted for the ABIA Award for Literary Fiction⭐ Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award

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Utgivningsdatum2025-05-22
Mått190 x 20 x 130 mm
Vikt210 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor320
FörlagHodder & Stoughton
ISBN9781399724388

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Charlotte Wood is the author of seven novels and three books of non-fiction. Her novel Stone Yard Devotional was shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize and was selected by the New York Times as one of their 10 best books of 2025. Earlier novels include The Natural Way of Things, which won the 2016 Stella Prize and was joint winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction, and The Weekend, which was an international bestseller. Her features and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Guardian, Literary Hub and Sydney Morning Herald, among others. Charlotte lives in Sydney with her husband.

It's just as extraordinary as the whispers from abroad suggested . . . the quiet, intensely private voice of Stone Yard Devotional feels more intimate than a library of confessional novels . . . Wood has developed a style that relies on dislocation, juxtaposition and elision to suggest the currents of spiritual turmoil and resolution. A lesser artist would push too hard for tenderness, for meaning, for what Hemingway called "fake" mysticism . . . Ultimately, a strange sense of engagement with these pages gives way to sheer gratitude for the chance to be in the presence of such restraint and wisdom