01812cam a2200337 i 4500 2055892897 TxAuBib 20250321120000.0 241101t20252023||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024049569 9798217047352 hardcover TxAuBib rda Wood, Charlotte, 1965-, author. Stone yard devotional / Charlotte Wood. First United States edition. New York : Riverhead Books, 2025. ©2023. 295 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier First published: Australia : Allen & Unwin Book Publishers, 2023. "Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize"--Dust jacket flap. "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. She doesn't believe in God, or know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive existence almost by accident. But disquiet interrupts this secluded life with three visitations. First comes a terrible mouse plague, each day signaling 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"-- Provided by publisher. 20250321. Middle-aged women Fiction. Recluses Fiction. Missing persons Fiction. Life change events Fiction. Australia Fiction.