And now, as though publishing were operating by steamship, “Stone Yard Devotional” has finally arrived in the United States. It’s just as extraordinary as the whispers from abroad suggested.

Civilizations from Stone Age Scotland to the eighth-century Maya to 13th-century African empires have used dry stone walling ...

Stone Yard Devotional Charlotte Wood. Riverhead, $28 (304p) ISBN 979-8-217-04735-2. A woman joins a cloister of nuns in rural Australia in this artful outing from Wood (The Weekend), which was a ...

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’ is as extraordinary as you’ve heard. Charlotte Wood’s novel, a Booker Prize finalist, follows an atheist whose mysterious path led her to live among nuns.