TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wood,Charlotte
TI  - Stone yard devotional
SN  - 9798217047352
AV  - PR9619.3.W625 S76 2025
U1  - 823/.914 23/eng/20241105
PY  - 2025///
CY  - New York
PB  - Riverhead Books
KW  - Middle-aged women
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Recluses
KW  - Missing persons
KW  - Life change events
KW  - Australia
KW  - Novels
KW  - lcgft
N1  - First published: Australia : Allen & Unwin Book Publishers, 2023.; "Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize"--Dust jacket flap
N2  - "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.  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 signaling 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"--
ER  -