⭐ SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 ⭐ ⭐ A NEW YORK TIMES ' 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR' PICK
⭐ Washington Post 's Top Ten Books of the Year 2025 Los Angeles Times 15 Best Books of 2025
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
