Study for ObedienceShortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023 Study for Obedience follows the story of a woman who moves from her birthplace to a remote northern country to serve as housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has recently left him. As the youngest child of many siblingsmore than she cares to remembershe has spent her earliest years attending to their every need, smoothing away discomfort with perfect obedience and the highest degree of devotion. The country to