Napa Bookmine Book Club: Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood

Join us for a book club discussion! This year, 2026, Napa Bookmine Book Clubs' book picks will come straight from home, this year's Napa Bookmine BINGO Card! Each book will match a BINGO square. Hurrah! Play along with Napa Bookmine and read some new, fun books, and if you come to every meeting, you may get a BINGO in the meantime. ;)

This month, we'll be talking about Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotion. Which works for the antipodean author square! This is a free event, but we would appreciate your RSVP so we can plan for your attendance!

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A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR
A WASHINGTON POST TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR
Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, a novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be good, from the award-winning author of The Weekend.
“Stone Yard Devotional is as extraordinary as you’ve heard.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post
“An exquisite, wrenching novel of leaving your life behind.” —Lauren Christensen, New York Times Book Review
"Meditative (but by no means uneventful)." —New York Times
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.
Meditative, moving, and finely observed, Stone Yard Devotional is a seminal novel from a writer of rare power, exploring what it means to retreat from the world, the true nature of forgiveness, and the sustained effect of grief on the human soul.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Charlotte Wood is the author of seven novels and three books of nonfiction. Her 2016 novel The Natural Way of Things won the Stella Prize in her native Australia and was joint winner of the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction. Her 2020 novel, The Weekend, was an international bestseller.

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