Stone Yard Devotional

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024THE NEW NOVEL BY THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE WEEKENDA Book of the Year for the Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald and ABC'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'A transfixing novel'FINANCIAL TIMES'I have rarely been so absorbed by a novel . . .A powerful, generous book'GUARDIAN'It leaves the reader feeling kinder, more brave, enlarged'ANNE ENRIGHT, author of The Wren, The Wren 'Beautiful, strange and otherworldly'PAULA HAWKINS, bestselling author of A Slow Fire Burning'Both profound and addictively entertaining. I loved it'CLARE CHAMBERS, bestselling author of Small PleasuresBurnt 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.