{"product_id":"stone-yard-devotional","title":"Stone Yard Devotional","description":"\u003cp\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024: THE NEW NOVEL BY THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE WEEKEND\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eA Guardian Book of the Summer 2024\u003cbr\u003e\nA Book of the Year for the Sydney Morning Herald and ABC\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award\u003cbr\u003e\nShortlisted for The Age Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\nShortlisted for the ABIA Award for Literary Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\nLonglisted for the Miles Franklin Award\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A beautiful, mature work that does not flinch from life'\u003cbr\u003e\nSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A transfixing novel'\u003cbr\u003e\nFINANCIAL TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A book about what it means to be good: simply and with great humility, it asks the big questions, leaving the reader feeling kinder, more brave, enlarged'\u003cbr\u003e\nANNE ENRIGHT, author of The Wren, The Wren\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'I have rarely been so absorbed by a novel . . . A powerful, generous book'\u003cbr\u003e\nGUARDIAN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Beautiful, strange and otherworldly'\u003cbr\u003e\nPAULA HAWKINS, bestselling author of A Slow Fire Burning\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'It extends and deepens Wood's already remarkable achievements as a novelist in powerful and often profound ways'\u003cbr\u003e\nSATURDAY PAPER\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Both profound and addictively entertaining. I loved it'\u003cbr\u003e\nCLARE CHAMBERS, bestselling author of Small Pleasures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Extraordinary . . . a stunning work of fiction from a major writer who keeps getting better'\u003cbr\u003e\nAUSTRALIAN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Remarkable . . . I'm still trying to figure out how she pulled it off. The best thing she's done'\u003cbr\u003e\nTIM WINTON, author of The Shepherd's Hut\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'No words can quite convey how much I loved this book'\u003cbr\u003e\nKAREN JOY FOWLER, author of Booth\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBurnt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut disquiet interrupts this secluded life with three visitations. First comes a terrible mouse plague, each day signalling 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR CHARLOTTE WOOD'S THE WEEKEND\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA Sunday Times 'Best Book for Summer 2021'\u003cbr\u003e\nA Times, Observer, Independent, Daily Express and Good Housekeeping Book of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'So great I am struggling to find the words to do it justice . . . Wood is an agonisingly gifted writer. I am now going to read all her other books'\u003cbr\u003e\nMARIAN KEYES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A rare pleasure'\u003cbr\u003e\nSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A perfect, funny, insightful novel about women, friendship and ageing'\u003cbr\u003e\nNINA STIBBE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Glorious . . . Charlotte Wood joins the ranks of writers such as Nora Ephron, Penelope Lively and Elizabeth Strout'\u003cbr\u003e\nGUARDIAN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Riveting'\u003cbr\u003e\nELIZABETH DAY\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Triumphantly brings to life the honest inner lives of women'\u003cbr\u003e\nINDEPENDENT\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A lovely, lively, intelligent, funny book'\u003cbr\u003e\nTESSA HADLEY\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45073775853747,"sku":"9781399724357","price":640.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/81aQZkPxJdL.jpg?v=1762877612","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/stone-yard-devotional","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}