SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024: THE NEW NOVEL BY THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE WEEKEND
A Guardian Book of the Summer 2024 A Book of the Year for the Sydney Morning Herald and ABC
Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award Shortlisted for The Age Book of the
Year Shortlisted for the ABIA Award for Literary Fiction Longlisted for the Miles Franklin
Award 'A beautiful mature work that does not flinch from life' SUNDAY TIMES 'A transfixing
novel' FINANCIAL TIMES 'A book about what it means to be good: simply and with great
humility it asks the big questions leaving the reader feeling kinder more brave enlarged'
ANNE ENRIGHT author of The Wren The Wren 'I have rarely been so absorbed by a novel . . . A
powerful generous book' GUARDIAN 'Beautiful strange and otherworldly' PAULA HAWKINS
bestselling author of A Slow Fire Burning 'It extends and deepens Wood's already remarkable
achievements as a novelist in powerful and often profound ways' SATURDAY PAPER 'Both
profound and addictively entertaining. I loved it' CLARE CHAMBERS bestselling author of Small
Pleasures 'Extraordinary . . . a stunning work of fiction from a major writer who keeps
getting better' AUSTRALIAN 'Remarkable . . . I'm still trying to figure out how she pulled
it off. The best thing she's done' TIM WINTON author of The Shepherd's Hut 'No words can
quite convey how much I loved this book' KAREN JOY FOWLER author of Booth 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 the Australian
outback. 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 signalling 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. PRAISE FOR CHARLOTTE WOOD'S THE WEEKEND A Sunday Times
'Best Book for Summer 2021' A Times Observer Independent Daily Express and Good
Housekeeping Book of the Year 'So great I am struggling to find the words to do it justice .
. . Wood is an agonisingly gifted writer. I am now going to read all her other books' MARIAN
KEYES 'A rare pleasure' SUNDAY TIMES 'A perfect funny insightful novel about women
friendship and ageing' NINA STIBBE 'Glorious . . . Charlotte Wood joins the ranks of writers
such as Nora Ephron Penelope Lively and Elizabeth Strout' GUARDIAN 'Riveting' ELIZABETH
DAY 'Triumphantly brings to life the honest inner lives of women' INDEPENDENT 'A lovely
lively intelligent funny book' TESSA HADLEY
