Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional takes place in a convent in the Australian outback — and on an existential plane.

While the traditional grass lawn may never go out of style, it is unlikely to ever be sustainable. Switch to a gravel garden ...

Wood’s earlier novels contain explicit social critiques, but 'Stone Yard Devotional' does its intellectual heavy lifting at ...

Given the monastic pacing of Charlotte Wood’s “Stone Yard Devotional,” I suppose it’s appropriate that we’ve had to wait patiently for it. Wood’s fellow Australians have been praising ...

Stone Yard Devotional, by Charlotte Wood (Riverhead). Short-listed for the Booker Prize, this quiet, probing novel follows a middle-aged woman as she moves into a cloistered religious community ...