https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/missmills/rss/search?query=Wood%2C%20Charlotte&searchType=author&view=groupedRSS for NodeWed, 11 Mar 2026 12:35:22 GMThttps://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C5014486https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C5014486Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://missmills.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5014486192BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798217047352/MC.GIF&client=ontlibconbib&type=xw12&oclc=A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR
A WASHINGTON POST TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR
A LOS ANGELES TIMES TOP FIFTEEN BOOK OF THE YEAR
Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, a novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be good, from the award-winning author of The Weekend.
“Stone Yard Devotional is as extraordinary as you’ve heard.” —The Washington Post
“An exquisite, wrenching novel of leaving your life behind.” —New York Times Book Review
"Meditative (but by no means uneventful)." —New York Times
"Riveting prose about how humans beat back despair."—Los Angeles Times

Burnt out and in need of retreat, a middle-aged woman leaves Sydney to return to the place she grew up, taking refuge in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of rural Australia. She doesn't believe in God, or know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive existence almost by accident.
But disquiet interrupts this secluded life with three visitations. First comes a terrible mouse plague, each day signaling a new battle against the rising infestation. Second is the return of the skeletal remains of a sister who disappeared decades before, presumed murdered. And finally, a troubling visitor plunges the narrator further back into her past.
Meditative, moving, and finely observed, Stone Yard Devotional is a seminal novel from a writer of rare power, exploring what it means to retreat from the world, the true nature of forgiveness, and the sustained effect of grief on the human soul.]]>https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C11220853https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C11220853Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://missmills.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/11220853980EBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798217047376/MC.GIF&client=ontlibconbib&type=xw12&oclc=https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C5014482https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S192C5014482Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://missmills.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5014482192BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798217047383/MC.GIF&client=ontlibconbib&type=xw12&oclc=The #1 International Bestseller from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Stone Yard Devotional
“The Big Chill with a dash of Big Little Lies . . . Knife-sharp and deeply alive.” —The Guardian (London)

“An insightful, poignant, and fiercely honest novel about female friendship and female aging.” —Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend

“Friendship, ambition, love, sexual politics and death: it’s all here in one sharp, funny, heartbreaking, and gorgeously written package. I loved it.” —Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train
Three women in their seventies reunite for one last, life-changing weekend in the beach house of their late friend.
 
Four older women have a lifelong friendship of the best kind: loving, practical, frank, and steadfast. But when Sylvie dies, the ground shifts dangerously for the remaining three.
They are Jude, a once-famous restaurateur; Wendy, an acclaimed public intellectual; and Adele, a renowned actress now mostly out of work. Struggling to recall exactly why they’ve remained close all these years, the grieving women gather at Sylvie’s old beach house—not for festivities this time, but to clean it out before it is sold. Can they survive together without her?
Without Sylvie to maintain the group’s delicate equilibrium, frustrations build and painful memories press in. Fraying tempers, an elderly dog, unwelcome guests, and too much wine collide in a storm that brings long-buried hurts to the surface—and threatens to sweep away their friendship for good.
The Weekend explores growing old and growing up, and what happens when we’re forced to uncover the lies we tell ourselves. Sharply observed and excruciatingly funny, this is a jewel of a book: a celebration of tenderness and friendship from an award-winning writer.]]>https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C5153576https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C5153576Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://missmills.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5153576980EBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593086452/MC.GIF&client=ontlibconbib&type=xw12&oclc=A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR
A WASHINGTON POST TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR
A LOS ANGELES TIMES TOP FIFTEEN BOOK OF THE YEAR
Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, a novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be good, from the award-winning author of The Weekend.
“Stone Yard Devotional is as extraordinary as you’ve heard.” —The Washington Post
“An exquisite, wrenching novel of leaving your life behind.” —New York Times Book Review
"Meditative (but by no means uneventful)." —New York Times
"Riveting prose about how humans beat back despair."—Los Angeles Times

Burnt out and in need of retreat, a middle-aged woman leaves Sydney to return to the place she grew up, taking refuge in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of rural Australia. She doesn't believe in God, or know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive existence almost by accident.
But disquiet interrupts this secluded life with three visitations. First comes a terrible mouse plague, each day signaling a new battle against the rising infestation. Second is the return of the skeletal remains of a sister who disappeared decades before, presumed murdered. And finally, a troubling visitor plunges the narrator further back into her past.
Meditative, moving, and finely observed, Stone Yard Devotional is a seminal novel from a writer of rare power, exploring what it means to retreat from the world, the true nature of forgiveness, and the sustained effect of grief on the human soul.]]>https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C11168968https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C11168968Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://missmills.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/11168968980EAUDIOBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798217081073/MC.GIF&client=ontlibconbib&type=xw12&oclc=She does not believe in God, doesn't know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive life almost by accident. As she gradually adjusts to the rhythms of monastic life, she ruminates on her childhood in the nearby town. She finds herself turning again and again to thoughts of her mother, whose early death she can't forget.
Disquiet interrupts this secluded life with three visitations. First comes a terrible mouse plague, each day signalling a new battle against the rising infestation.
Second is the return of the skeletal remains of a sister who left the community decades before to minister to deprived women in Thailand - then disappeared, presumed murdered.
Finally, a troubling visitor to the monastery pulls the narrator further back into her past.
With each of these disturbing arrivals, the woman faces some deep questions. Can a person be truly good? What is forgiveness? Is loss of hope a moral failure? And can the business of grief ever really be finished?
A meditative and deeply moving novel from the Stella Prize-winning author of The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend.]]>https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C10131786https://missmills.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C10131786Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://missmills.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/10131786980EAUDIOBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781004139750/MC.GIF&client=ontlibconbib&type=xw12&oclc=