Stone Yard Devotional (Hardback)

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<b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024</b> <b>The new novel by the bestselling author of <i>The Weekend</i></b> <b> A Book of the Year for the <i>Guardian</i>, <i>Sydney Morning Herald</i> and <i>ABC</i></b> 'The fact that <i>Stone Yard Devotional</i> not only stays aloft but soars would seem to deny the laws of literary physics' <b>Ron Charles, <i>Washington Post</i></b> 'A beautiful, mature work that does not flinch from life' <b><i>Sunday Times</i></b> 'Exquisite, wrenching' <i><b>New York Times</b></i> 'I have rarely been so absorbed by a novel' <b><i>Guardian</i></b> 'It leaves the reader feeling kinder, more brave, enlarged' <b>Anne Enright</b> 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 remai