Charlotte Wood on the Booker prize: 'The global attention is like nothing I've seen'; The author is the first Australian to be shortlisted for the $98,000 prize since Richard Flanagan won in 2014Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email

Byline: Dee Jefferson Mere hours after finishing the first draft of her novel Stone Yard Devotional, about a woman who retreats to a monastery in the face of personal crisis, [...]