Stone Yard Devotional

The 'exquisite, wrenching' novel [New York Times], shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024

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<p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024: THE NEW NOVEL BY THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF <i>THE WEEKEND</i></b><br>A <i>Guardian </i>Book of the Summer 2024<br>A Book of the Year for the <i>Sydney Morning Herald </i>and <i>ABC<br><br></i>Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award <br>Shortlisted for <i>The Age </i>Book of the Year <br>Shortlisted for the ABIA Award for Literary Fiction <br>Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award <br><br>'A beautiful, mature work that does not flinch from life'<br><b><i>SUNDAY TIMES<br></i></b><br>'A transfixing novel'<br><b><i>FINANCIAL TIMES<br></i></b><br>'A book about what it means to be good: simply and with great humility, it asks the big questions, leaving the reader feeling kinder, more brave, enlarged'<br><b>ANNE ENRIGHT, author of <i>The Wren, The Wren</i> </b><br><br>'I have rarely been so absorbed by a novel . . . A powerful, generous book'<br><i><b>GUARDIAN</b><br></i><br>'Beautiful, strange and otherworldly'<br><b>PAULA HAWKINS, bestselling author of </b><i><b>A Slow Fire Burning</b><br></i><br>'It extends and deepens Wood's already remarkable achievements as a novelist in powerful and often profound ways'<br><i><b>SATURDAY PAPER</b><br></i><br>'Both profound and addictively entertaining. I loved it'<br><b>CLARE CHAMBERS, bestselling author of </b><i><b>Small Pleasures</b><br><br></i>'Extraordinary . . . a stunning work of fiction from a major writer who keeps getting better'<br><i><b>AUSTRALIAN</b><br></i><br> 'Remarkable . . . I'm still trying to figure out how she pulled it off. The best thing she's done'<br><b>TIM WINTON, author of <i>The Shepherd's Hut</i></b><br><br>'No words can quite convey how much I loved this book'<br><b>KAREN JOY FOWLER, author of </b><i><b>Booth</b></i><br><br>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 the Australian outback. She doesn't b

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781399724357

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

231 x 154 x 27 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Verlag / Hersteller

Hodder And Stoughton Ltd.