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Cervical smears, surrogacy and dementia: Writer Catherine Chidgey gets personal

Award-winning writer Catherine Chidgey’s new book, The Beat of the Pendulum, is described as a “found” novel and was written in one year. ROSS GIBLIN / STUFF I'm having to tell a story about the ...
The New Zealand Herald

Ockham Book Awards winners: Catherine Chidgey, Alice Te Punga Somerville and Ned Fletcher

New Zealand authors have provided us with plenty of beloved and award-winning books over the years. From Lynley Dodd’s Hairy Maclary to Witi Ihimaera’s The Whale Rider and all the classics in between, ...
The New York Times

Triplets in Peril in a Might-Have-Been England

With echoes of “Never Let Me Go” and “The Goldfinch,” Catherine Chidgey’s devastating new novel watches young lives get twisted into unnatural shape. By Alexis Schaitkin Alexis Schaitkin is the author ...
The New York Times

When the Favor of a Beloved Schoolteacher Turns Sinister

In Catherine Chidgey’s seventh novel, “Pet,” a motherless 12-year-old girl falls under the intoxicating spell of a mysterious teacher at her Catholic school in New Zealand. By Ruth Franklin When you ...
The Washington Post

A grieving woman bonds with a bird in this gorgeously strange novel

“The Axeman’s Carnival” by Catherine Chidgey is a darkly comic tale of a woman’s relationship with a magpie Catherine Chidgey’s new novel — about the relationship between a woman and a bird — reminded ...