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Informationen zum Autor Charlotte Wood is the author of seven novels and three books of non-fiction. Her novel The Natural Way of Things won the 2016 Stella Prize, the Indie Book of the Year and Novel of the Year Awards, and was joint winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction. Her next novel, The Weekend , was an international bestseller and was shortlisted for the 2020 Stella Prize, the Prime Minister's Literary Award and the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. In 2019 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) and named one of the Australian Financial Review 's 100 Women of Influence. Her features and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Guardian, Literary Hub and Sydney Morning Herald , among others. Charlotte lives in Sydney with her husband. Klappentext SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024: THE NEW NOVEL BY THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE WEEKEND A Guardian Book of the Summer 2024 A Book of the Year for the Sydney Morning Herald and ABC Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year Shortlisted for the ABIA Award for Literary Fiction Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award 'A beautiful, mature work that does not flinch from life' SUNDAY TIMES 'A transfixing novel' FINANCIAL TIMES 'A book about what it means to be good: simply and with great humility, it asks the big questions, leaving the reader feeling kinder, more brave, enlarged' ANNE ENRIGHT, author of The Wren, The Wren 'I have rarely been so absorbed by a novel . . . A powerful, generous book' GUARDIAN 'Beautiful, strange and otherworldly' PAULA HAWKINS, bestselling author of A Slow Fire Burning 'It extends and deepens Wood's already remarkable achievements as a novelist in powerful and often profound ways' SATURDAY PAPER 'Both profound and addictively entertaining. I loved it' CLARE CHAMBERS, bestselling author of Small Pleasures 'Extraordinary . . . a stunning work of fiction from a major writer who keeps getting better' AUSTRALIAN 'Remarkable . . . I'm still trying to figure out how she pulled it off. The best thing she's done' TIM WINTON, author of The Shepherd's Hut 'No words can quite convey how much I loved this book' KAREN JOY FOWLER, author of Booth 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 the Australian outback. 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 signalling 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. PRAISE FOR CHARLOTTE WOOD'S THE WEEKEND A Sunday Times 'Best Book for Summer 2021' A Times , Observer , Independent , Daily Express and Good Housekeeping Book of the Year 'So great I am struggling to find the words to do it justice . . . Wood is an agonisingly gifted writer. I am now going to read all her other books' MARIAN KEYES 'A rare pleasure' SUNDAY TIMES 'A perfect, funny, insightful novel about women, friendship and ageing' NINA STIBBE 'Glorious . . . Charlotte Wood joins the ranks of wr...

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The new novel by Charlotte Wood, the Stella Prize-winning author of The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend.
A fearless exploration of forgiveness, grief and the complicated beauty of female friendship.

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024: THE NEW NOVEL BY THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE WEEKEND
A Guardian Book of the Summer 2024
A Book of the Year for the Sydney Morning Herald and *ABC

Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award
Shortlisted for *The Age Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the ABIA Award for Literary Fiction
Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award

'A beautiful, mature work that does not flinch from life'
SUNDAY TIMES

'A transfixing novel'
FINANCIAL TIMES

'A book about what it means to be good: simply and with great humility, it asks the big questions, leaving the reader feeling kinder, more brave, enlarged'
ANNE ENRIGHT, author of The Wren, The Wren

'I have rarely been so absorbed by a novel . . . A powerful, generous book'
*GUARDIAN

• 'Beautiful, strange and otherworldly'
  PAULA HAWKINS, bestselling author of *A Slow Fire Burning
• 'It extends and deepens Wood's already remarkable achievements as a novelist in powerful and often profound ways'
  *SATURDAY PAPER
• 'Both profound and addictively entertaining. I loved it'
  CLARE CHAMBERS, bestselling author of *Small Pleasures

'Extraordinary . . . a stunning work of fiction from a major writer who keeps getting better'
**AUSTRALIAN

• 'Remarkable . . . I'm still trying to figure out how she pulled it off. The best thing she's done'
  TIM WINTON, author of The Shepherd's Hut

'No words can quite convey how much I loved this book'
KAREN JOY FOWLER, author of Booth

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 the Australian outback. 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 signalling 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.

PRAISE FOR CHARLOTTE WOOD'S THE WEEKEND
A Sunday Times 'Best Book for Summer 2021'
A Times, Observer, Independent, Daily Express and Good Housekeeping Book of the Year

'So great I am struggling to find the words to do it justice . . . Wood is an agonisingly gifted writer. I am now going to read all her other books'
MARIAN KEYES

'A rare pleasure'
SUNDAY TIMES

'A perfect, funny, insightful novel about women, friendship and ageing'
NINA STIBBE

'Glorious . . . Charlotte Wood joins the ranks of writers such as Nora Ephron, Penelope Lively and Elizabeth Strout'
GUARDIAN

'Riveting'
ELIZABETH DAY

'Triumphantly brings to life the honest inner lives of women'
INDEPENDENT

'A lovely, lively, intelligent, funny book'
TESSA HADLEY

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'Both profound and addictively entertaining. I loved it'
CLARE CHAMBERS, bestselling author of Small Pleasures

'Beautiful, strange and otherworldly'
PAULA HAWKINS, bestselling author of A Slow Fire Burning

'Subtly powerful and utterly engrossing'
CLAIRE FULLER, bestselling author of Unsettled Ground

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 the Australian outback. She doesn't believe in God, or know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive existence almost by accident.

As she gradually adjusts to the rhythms of her new life, she finds herself turning again and again to thoughts of her mother, whose early death she can't forget.

But 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 …