⭐ SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 ⭐ The new novel by the bestselling author of The
Weekend A 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 'I have rarely been so absorbed by
a novel' Guardian 'Exquisite... a heartening and consoling force' Sigrid Nunez The New
Yorker '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... ⭐ 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
