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Charlotte Wood
Goodreads Author
Born
in Cooma, Australia
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September 2019
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Stone Yard Devotional
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2023
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20 editions
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The Weekend
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published
2019
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2 editions
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The Natural Way of Things
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published
2015
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39 editions
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Animal People
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published
2011
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9 editions
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The Children
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published
2007
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10 editions
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The Luminous Solution
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The Submerged Cathedral
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published
2004
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2 editions
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Love and Hunger
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published
2012
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3 editions
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The Writer's Room
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published
2016
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7 editions
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Brothers & Sisters
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published
2009
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3 editions
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“What would people in their old lives be saying about these girls? Would they be called missing? Would some documentary program on the ABC that nobody watched, or one of those thin newspapers nobody read, somehow connect their cases, find the thread to make them a story? The Lost Girls, they could be called. Would it be said, they 'disappeared', 'were lost'? Would it be said that they were abandoned or taken, the way people said a girl was attacked, a woman was raped, this femaleness always at the centre, as if womanhood itself were the cause of these things? As if the girls somehow, through the natural way of things, did it to themselves. They lured abduction and abandonment to themselves, they marshalled themselves into this prison where they had made their beds, and now, once more, were lying in them.”
― The Natural Way of Things
― The Natural Way of Things
“To create is to defy emptiness. It is generous, it affirms. To make is to add to the world, not subtract from it.”
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“Our Simone once took me to task over my ‘sneering’ about prayer. My notion of prayer was juvenile: forget this telephone line to God bullshit, she snapped, hot with impatience. It wasn’t even about God, she said, which I thought must surely be blasphemous. Praying was a way to interrupt your own habitual thinking, she told me. It’s admitting yourself into otherness, cracking open your prejudices. It’s not chitchat; it’s hard labour. She spoke as if all this were obvious. I longed to understand her. It feels always that I am on the edge of some comprehension here but never breaking through to the other side.”
― Stone Yard Devotional
― Stone Yard Devotional
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| Aussie Readers: September Challenge - Australian Fiction | 322 | 154 | Oct 02, 2015 05:26AM |
