ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- An unnamed narrator takes a retreat at a cloistered abbey near the town she grew up in. She’s avoiding thinking about her marriage breakdown and observing the nuns’ rituals with some incomprehension, but a few years later she is resident there. Has she run away from the world? Is it solace or solitude she seeks? Or forgiveness? As she revisits her moral failings, the world intrudes: first a mouse plague, then someone from her past… A quiet novel, all the more powerful because of its introspection. Lindy
Charlotte Wood is the author of ten books - seven novels and three non-fiction works. She has won the Stella Prize and the Prime Minister's Literary Award, among others, and her features and essays have appeared in The Guardian, New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald, The Monthly, Saturday Paper and others. She lives in Sydney.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- An unnamed narrator takes a retreat at a cloistered abbey near the town she grew up in. She’s avoiding thinking about her marriage breakdown and observing the nuns’ rituals with some incomprehension, but a few years later she is resident there. Has she run away from the world? Is it solace or solitude she seeks? Or forgiveness? As she revisits her moral failings, the world intrudes: first a mouse plague, then someone from her past… A quiet novel, all the more powerful because of its introspection. Lindy