![The writer Charlotte Wood photographed in Cooma, New South Wales, where she grew up. Her latest novel, “Stone Yard Devotional”, is set in a fictional religious community in the region.](https://taustralia.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Stone_Yard-46-scaled.jpg)
The Booker-Shortlisted Author Charlotte Wood Extrapolates Ideas From the Unexpected
T Australia columnist Lance Richardson speaks with the writer about her novel “Stone Yard Devotional”: a stark meditation on death, grace, forgiveness and the nature of belief.