Stone Yard Devotional

⭐ SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 ⭐ ⭐ ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES ⭐ 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 b