# Stone Yard Devotional - Paperback

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by **Charlotte Wood** (Author)

**BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST  
A _NEW YORK TIMES_ TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR  
A _WASHINGTON POST_ TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR  
A _LOS ANGELES TIMES_ TOP FIFTEEN BOOK OF THE YEAR**

"_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 Times_

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_ and _The Natural Way of Things_.  
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.

### Author Biography

**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 for Fiction. Her 2020 novel, _The Weekend_, was an international bestseller.

**Number of Pages:** 304

**Dimensions:** 0.8 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN

**Publication Date:** February 10, 2026

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- **Price:** 26.0 GBP
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- **Type:** Books
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