The past comes knocking in Charlotte Wood’s fearless exploration of forgiveness, grief and female friendship
Charlotte Wood
Charlotte Wood lives in Sydney. She is the author of seven novels and three works of non-fiction
Her novel The Natural Way of Things won the 2016 Stella Prize, the Indie Book of the Year and Novel of the Year Awards, and was joint winner of the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction. Her next novel, The Weekend, was an international bestseller and was shortlisted for the 2020 Stella Prize, the Prime Minister’s Literary Award and the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. In 2019 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) and named one of the Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence. Her features and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Guardian, Literary Hub and Sydney Morning Herald, among others.
Her novel Stone Yard Devotional was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024.
A woman settles into a monastery in rural Australia and discovers that no shelter is impermeable. This novel thrilled and chilled the judges
— The 2024 judges on Stone Yard Devotional
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