'What can we afford to lose?' Charlotte Wood's new novel poses big questions about goodness, purpose and sacrifice
- Written by: Shady Cosgrove, Associate Professor, Creative Writing, University of Wollongong
Alain Frechett/Pexels; Rodolfo Clix/PexelsCharlotte 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...