The novel gets off to something of a false start. When we first meet Wood’s unnamed heroine and narrator, she is turning up at the door of a convent on the barren, windswept Monaro plains of New ...

Award-winning Australian author Charlotte Wood speaks almost meditatively about the fundamental structure of narratives that dictate the plot of her novel Stone Yard Devotional, shortlisted for ...

“There’s an almost prehistoric feel to some of them,” she observed. Interlocking slabs of wood and stone are incredibly textured. Most are completely covered in chisel marks, resembling a ...