{"product_id":"9781399724357-stone-yard-devotional","title":"Stone Yard Devotional","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe new Booker-shortlisted novel by Charlotte Wood, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Weekend \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Natural Way of Things.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA  fearless exploration of forgiveness, grief and the complicated beauty of female friendship.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024: THE NEW NOVEL BY THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF \u003ci\u003eTHE WEEKEND\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003eBook of the Summer 2024\u003cbr\u003eA Book of the Year for the \u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eABC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eShortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award \u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for \u003ci\u003eThe Age \u003c\/i\u003eBook of the Year \u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the ABIA Award for Literary Fiction \u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the Miles Franklin Award \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A beautiful, mature work that does not flinch from life'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A transfixing novel'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFINANCIAL TIMES\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eANNE ENRIGHT, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Wren, The Wren\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I have rarely been so absorbed by a novel . A powerful, generous book'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Beautiful, strange and otherworldly'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePAULA HAWKINS, bestselling author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Slow Fire Burning\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'It extends and deepens Wood's already remarkable achievements as a novelist in powerful and often profound ways'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSATURDAY PAPER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Both profound and addictively entertaining. 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