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A woman visits a remote Australian monastery for a few days in search of peace and quiet, but decides to stay there indefinitely. It soon becomes known that the remains of a volunteer nun who once lived there and then went to Bangkok, where she was murdered under mysterious circumstances, will be sent to this quiet place. She is accompanied home by an environmental activist who was bullied by the main character of the book as a child. Meanwhile, a plague of mice hits the entire country due to global warming, and the monastery is choked with the stench of mouse bodies.
In the midst of nature, in a monastery where a somewhat contradictory spirit of sisterhood reigns, the main character immerses herself in memories and analyzes life as it is in the pages of a diary: with its imperfections, injustices or unpleasant truths.
Australian writer Charlotte Wood (1965) in her book "Devoted to Stoneyard" presents her vision of how to come to terms with the past, gain support, earn forgiveness, find peace; how, without believing, to find faith.