Stone Yard Devotional
Stone Yard Devotional
book by Charlotte Wood
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author, premise or hype
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And I'm off to the convent
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
The fact was that Annabel was so disgusted by greed, by the ruination of the natural world because of it, that, like ascetics before her, the only action she could take was to remove herself, bit by bit, from the obscenity of this excess. 'Her suffering was an existential and a moral problem,' he said. 'Not a medical one.'