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Shady Cosgrove, Associate Professor, Creative Writing, University of Wollongong

'What can we afford to lose?' Charlotte Wood's new novel poses big questions about goodness, purpose and sacrifice

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Charlotte Wood’s Stone Yard Devotional tells the story of a woman who abandons her city life to live in a rural religious compound. In the vein of her award-winning The Natural Way of Things, Wood continues to explore relationships between women in isolated groups, and more broadly, tensions between the individual and the collective.


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