⭐ SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 ⭐ ⭐ A NEW YORK TIMES ' 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR' PICK
⭐ One of the Washington Post 's Top Ten Books of the Year 2025 One of New York Public
Library's Books of the Year 2025 A Book of the Year 2024 for the Guardian Sydney Morning
Herald ABC and BookRiot '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... ⭐ 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
