Pet by Catherine Chidgey

Pet by Catherine Chidgey

An international bestselling psychological thriller from the author of Remote Sympathy (longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award).

"A superb character study, delivered with panache"

* The Bookseller’s “Fiction Book of the Month” *

“A remarkable and original writer, whose novels have the golden combination of being both riveting and superbly-written.”

* Lissa Evans *

"A dark and compelling story of guilt and betrayal. Add to it a near-perfect plot twist and you have a novel that lives long in the mind.”

* Alex Preston *

“Catherine Chidgey mobilises the misgivings shared by all children who love and lose, the fear of being odd, the longing to be special, the horror of being supplanted. Pet is a novel hard not to swallow entire in one go, by when the reader will be full of hooks and wary as an old pike.”

* Candia McWilliam *

"Catherine Chidgey brilliantly evokes the very particular preoccupations, fascinations, and cruelties of 11 and 12 year olds. The story is built of details which accumulate in a growing unease till the reader too begins to doubt her own judgement. Rivetingly tense and observant.”

* Elizabeth Cook *

“Refreshing, compelling and surprising, this novel skirts around familiar tropes to deliver something new and troubling. Sharp writing, keen observations and killer wit.” 

* Ann Morgan *

"Pet is a page-turning psychological thriller: tense, uncomfortable and completely gripping."

* NZ Herald *

Catherine Chidgey’s novels have been published to international acclaim. Her first, In a Fishbone Church, won Best First Book at the New Zealand Book Awards and at the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (South East Asia and South Pacific). In the UK it won the Betty Trask Award and was longlisted for the Orange Prize. Her second, Golden Deeds, was a Notable Book of the Year in The New York Times Book Review and a Best Book in the LA Times. Catherine has won the Prize in Modern Letters, the Katherine Mansfield Award, the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship, the Janet Frame Fiction Prize, and the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize for The Wish Child. She lives in Ngāruawāhia and lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Waikato. Her novel Remote Sympathy was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction.

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ISBN 13	9781787705081
ISBN 10	1787705080
Title	Pet
Author	Catherine Chidgey
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
Year published	2024-01-18
Number of pages	336
Prizes	Long-listed for Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction 2024 (New Zealand)
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.