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Pet by Catherine Chidgey
Category: Fiction
A new novel from the Women's Prize for Fiction longlisted, Dublin Literary Award shortlisted, and Ockham NZ Book Award winning author of The Axeman's Carnival and Remote Sympathy, Catherine Chidgey. Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic new te ...Show more
Pet by Catherine Chidgey
Category: Fiction
When a charismatic new teacher arrives, everyone longs to be her pet. A gripping story of deception and guilt, set in a Catholic school during the 1980s. The new novel from the WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION longlisted and DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD shortlisted author of Remote Sympathy "Chidgey is a find."-TIMES ...Show more
Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey
Category: Fiction
Moving away from Munich isn't nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had feared. Their new home is even lovelier than the one they left behind, and best of all - right on their doorstep - are some of the finest craftsmen from all over Europe, prepared to make for her and the other ...Show more
Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey
Category: Fiction
A novel of devastating beauty that will leave readers shaken and exhilarated.
Remote Sympathy: Longlisted for the 2022 Women's Prize for Fiction by Catherine Chidgey
Category: Fiction
A novel of devastating beauty that will leave readers shaken and exhilarated - longlisted for the 2022 Women's Prize for Fiction. Moving away from Munich isn't nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had feared. Their new home is even lovelier than the one they left behind, and best ...Show more
The Axeman's Carnival by Catherine Chidgey
Category: Fiction
* Winner of New Zealand's Fiction Book of the Year 2023 A dazzling portrayal of humanity and the natural world that perfectly balances violence and humour. Everywhere, the birds, but above them all and louder, the magpies. We are here and this is our tree, and we're staying, and you need to leave and ...Show more
The Wish Child by Catherine Chidgey
Category: Fiction
Germany, 1939. Two children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechanisms of power. Siggi lives in the affluent ignorance of middle-class Berlin, her father a censor who excises prohibited words ('promise', 'love', 'mercy'). Erich is an only child living a lush rural life, aware that ...Show more
The Wish Child by Catherine Chidgey
Category: Fiction
Winner of the New Zealand Book Award for FictionGermany, 1939. Two children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechanisms of power. Siggi lives in the affluent ignorance of middle-class Berlin, her father a censor who excises prohibited words ('promise', 'love', 'mercy'). Erich is an ...Show more
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