Stone Yard Devotional

Stone Yard DevotionalA deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award winning author of The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend. A woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the place of her childhood, holing up in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of the Monaro. She does not believe in God, doesn't know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive life almost by

It's no small accomplishment for a first novel

As the clock ticks down

It’s all she can do to just collapse on the couch with a bottle of wine every night

helping you save money

But her prey is far from harmless

mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery

so believe me when I tell you this: Birds are horrible people

Can you find the whale

“It seems wrong / to curl now within the confines / of a poem

already exists in me

From the all-too-real horror of a sexual predator on a college campus to a lost sister transformed by cave-dwelling creatures

He has always managed his bipolar disorder with medication