Stone Yard Devotional

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And really quick, finally, Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood, a fictional account of a woman who returns to her home in Sydney, burned out and facing a mouse plague.

What can readers take away from this book ahead of the midterms?

A little palate cleanser just because we've been so political.

No, you can do it.

Stoneyard Devotional, which is an adaptation of the Booker Prize shortlisted novel by Australian author Charlotte Wood, which is being adapted by Joanna Murray-Smith, who's rather well known.

Well, we love her here,

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Um, and, and I'm interested in how you see human despair.

One of the Booker judges called Stone Yard Devotional, one of your, uh, award-winning, um, novels, uh, "riveting prose about how humans beat back despair." And I w- I, I'm definitely gonna read that novel because that's...

I find it absolutely fascinating.

But then in this book, you say, you talk a lot about food and grief and feasting in rituals, funerals.

So I, I, that has, I've now realized, become a bit of a recurring theme of, you know, some idea of horror is, um, you know, mac and cheese in a box or something.

[laughs] Um, but yeah, I don't wanna make it a big deal in my novels, but it always, it's often something to do with, uh, it's always about relationships between people.

So in, uh, Stone Yard Devotional, um, which is where a woman goes and joins a religious community even though she doesn't believe in God, she takes over the cooking and she starts making food from scratch.

And some of these nuns hate that because they like the mac and cheese in a box.