Stone Yard Devotional

⭐ SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 ⭐
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 Enright

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 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...

⭐ A Book of the Year 2025 for the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and New York Public Library
⭐ A Book of the Year 2024 for the Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald, ABC and BookRiot
⭐ Shortlisted for the Victorian Premiers Literary Award
⭐ Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year
⭐ Shortlisted for the ABIA Award for Literary Fiction
⭐ Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award