Presented by Alex at the September 2025 meeting
Stone Yard Devotional
- Published 2023
- Fiction
3.0
one reader
- Alex3
In brief
Rated one of the best books of 2025. Novel about a burnt out woman seekng refuge in a convent. Plague of mice, grief, old memories. Maybe I just didn't get it.
From Wikipedia
Stone Yard Devotional is a 2023 novel by Australian writer Charlotte Wood, published by Allen & Unwin in Australia and Sceptre in the UK. The novel tells the story of an unnamed narrator who becomes disillusioned with her career as an endangered species conservation specialist in Sydney amid the looming climate crisis and amid crushing despair, leaves her life and moves into a convent in rural Monaro Plains in New South Wales.
The novel was shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize.
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