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Blake Morrison: Charlotte Wood’s ‘Stone Yard Devotional’, 7 November 2024
Stone Yard Devotional
by Charlotte Wood.
Sceptre, 297 pp., £16.99, March,978 1 3997 2434 0 Show More
by Charlotte Wood.
Sceptre, 297 pp., £16.99, March,
“... mice from overrunning their homes. Then there were the corpses to dispose of – and the smell.In Charlotte Wood’s latest novel, a group of nuns in the Australian outback are initially reluctant to kill mice: their credo is ‘do no harm.’ The unnamed narrator is reluctant too: she used to work at an endangered species rescue centre, and thinks it ... ”