Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood Contemporary Fiction we find ourselves in a

we find ourselves in a larger world

in a deeply tender novel by one of our most acclaimed and inventive fiction writers

"Combine the slightly offbeat sensibility of Muriel Spark with the milieu of an Iris Murdoch novel and you'll have something of an idea about this witty tale

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Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood Contemporary Fiction we find ourselves in aBurnt 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