The author is the first Australian to be shortlisted for the $98,000 prize since Richard Flanagan won in 2014
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, Australian author Charlotte Wood received a call back for a breast screening – and was diagnosed with cancer.
“It was just the weirdest timing,” she says. Both her sisters were diagnosed with breast cancer around the same time. “Everything just sort of collapsed.”
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