Charlotte Wood
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 rural Australia. But disquiet soon interrupts this secluded life.
First, comes the mouser infestation, disrupting the nuns' prayerful routines. Then the skeletal remains of a sister who disappeared decades before are returned to the monastery, reviving years of grief and pain. And then, an unexpected and troubling visitor plunges the narrator further into her past... ?
Published by Sceptre Books, a Hachette imprint