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Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the ...

In "Stone Yard Devotional," a disillusioned atheist retreats to a cloistered convent in rural Australia, seeking refuge from ...

Given the monastic pacing of Charlotte Wood’s “Stone Yard Devotional,” I suppose it’s appropriate that we’ve had to wait patiently for it. Wood’s fellow Australians have been praising ...

At one point she cites a line of Simone Weil’s that reads, “Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer.” This novel’s resolute attention to the troubles of others makes it ...

“Stone Yard Devotional” is a meditation that allows for contradictions and complexity — it accepts the world as it is, a mix of good and evil. Though the novel’s quiet and understated nature may have ...

Charlotte Wood is the author most recently of “Stone Yard Devotional,” which was shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, and other 10 books. Here she takes the Book Pages Q&A. Q. Please tell ...

“Stone Yard Devotional” can be viewed as part of a quiet trend of books—along with Neel Mukherjee’s “Choice” and Caoilinn Hughes’s “The Alternatives”—about disaffected ...