Stone Yard Devotional

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 before are returned to the monastery, resurfacing years of grief and pain. And then, an unexpected and troubling visitor plunges the narrator further into her past...