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Author's note: For Jane Palfreyman
Epigraph: 'I felt chastened by the world.' - Nick Cave
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Large print.
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Books Reviews : Tell Her She’s Dreamin’, Stone Yard Devotional, Strangely Enough
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , December 2023;
— Review of Tell Her She's Dreamin' : A Memoir for Ambitious Girls 2023 single work autobiography ; Stone Yard Devotional 2023 single work novel ; Strangely Enough 2023 anthology short story -
Charlotte Wood's Latest Novel Stone Yard Devotional Tackles Unresolved Grief and a Mouse Plague
2023
single work
column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , December 2023;'In 2022, Charlotte Wood had just finished the first draft of her new novel, Stone Yard Devotional, when she received the terrible news that her older sister had breast cancer.'
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Charlotte Wood on the Difference between Hope and Courage
Astrid Edwards
(interviewer),
2023
27247492
2023
single work
podcast
interview
'Charlotte Wood has won the Stella Prize and the Prime Minister's Literary Award (as well as many other awards). She is the author of ten books - seven novels and three non-fiction works. Her latest novel is Stone Yard Devotional, which she describes as an 'interior' and 'austere' work, and her most personal work of fiction to date.' (Production summary)
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Naming the Bones : A Meditation on Consequence and Care
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 460 2023; (p. 39)
— Review of Stone Yard Devotional 2023 single work novel''Arrive finally at about three.’ The opening sentence of Charlotte Wood’s seventh novel does a lot in five simple words, emblematic of her gift for compression. With the direct, truncated prose of a diary entry, we are suddenly on intimate terms with another mind, impatient to begin. The unnamed narrator is a woman alone, returning to the country town where she grew up and where her parents are buried. ‘Your bones are here, beneath my feet,’ she thinks, standing at their graves for the first time in thirty-five years. So begins her reckoning.' (Introduction)
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The Burden of Hope in Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 13 November vol. 33 no. 22 2023;
— Review of Stone Yard Devotional 2023 single work novel
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Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood Review – A Masterful Novel of Quiet Force
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 3 October 2023;
— Review of Stone Yard Devotional 2023 single work novel 'Set at a rural Australian monastery, with a minimal plot and a looming climate catastrophe, this is a book of introspection – and of despair' -
‘Ballsy’, ‘very Funny’, ‘read in One Sitting’ : The Best Australian Books Out in October
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 4 October 2023;
— Review of Edenglassie 2023 single work novel ; Stone Yard Devotional 2023 single work novel ; Late : A Novel 2023 single work novel ; Killing for Country : A Family Story 2023 multi chapter work criticism ; Gunflower 2023 selected work short story ; The Man Who Wasn't There 2023 single work biography ; Home to Biloela 2023 single work autobiography -
Charlotte Wood Stone Yard Devotional
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 21-27 October 2023;
— Review of Stone Yard Devotional 2023 single work novel'In the opening pages of Charlotte Wood’s new novel, the narrator takes a detour to the cemetery outside the town where she grew up. She is there to visit her parents’ graves for the first time in 35 years, although that process is complicated by her difficulty locating them and by the discovery somebody left “ugly plastic flowers” by their headstones. As she walks away the narrator recalls the phone call she received to tell her that her mother’s headstone was ready, “my outsides unaltered but everything within me plummeting. Like a sandbank collapsing inside me.”' (Introduction)
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Melissa Lucashenko, Christos Tsiolkas, Charlotte Wood and Other Best New Books Released in October, Selected by Avid Readers and Critics
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , October 2023;
— Review of Edenglassie 2023 single work novel ; Stone Yard Devotional 2023 single work novel ; The In-Between 2023 single work novel -
The Bare Beauty of a Cloistered Life
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21-22 October 2023; (p. 13)
— Review of Stone Yard Devotional 2023 single work novel -
Space for Questions in Charlotte Wood’s Stone Yard Devotional
2023
single work
column
— Appears in: Thoughts from an Idle Hour 2015-;'Space for Questions' uses quotes from Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional together with related questions to probe the book's themes. The content is suitable for use by book clubs.
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Charlotte Wood Thinks Restraint Is Underrated
Michael Williams
(interviewer),
2023
27121142
2023
single work
podcast
interview
'Charlotte Wood became a mainstay in Australia’s literary firmament in 2015 following the release of her award-winning novel, The Natural Way of Things. Her latest book, Stone Yard Devotional, is her most personal yet. It’s a meditation on grief, solitude, what it means to live a good life, and what we owe one another. This week, Michael sits down with Charlotte to discuss her new book, and she shares the psychic catastrophe that informed its final form.' (Production summary)
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Charlotte Wood on the Difference between Hope and Courage
Astrid Edwards
(interviewer),
2023
27247492
2023
single work
podcast
interview
'Charlotte Wood has won the Stella Prize and the Prime Minister's Literary Award (as well as many other awards). She is the author of ten books - seven novels and three non-fiction works. Her latest novel is Stone Yard Devotional, which she describes as an 'interior' and 'austere' work, and her most personal work of fiction to date.' (Production summary)
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Charlotte Wood's Latest Novel Stone Yard Devotional Tackles Unresolved Grief and a Mouse Plague
2023
single work
column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , December 2023;'In 2022, Charlotte Wood had just finished the first draft of her new novel, Stone Yard Devotional, when she received the terrible news that her older sister had breast cancer.'
Awards
- 2024 shortlisted The Age Book of the Year Award — Book of the Year
- 2024 shortlisted Booksellers Choice Award BookPeople Book of the Year — Adult Fiction Book of the Year
- 2024 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Literary Fiction Book of the Year
- 2024 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Prize for Fiction
- 2024 longlisted Indie Awards — Fiction
- Monaro, Cooma area, Cooma - Snowy - Bombala area, Southeastern NSW, New South Wales,