The Starving Bride by Catherine Chidgey - ISBN: 9781761623073
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Spectacle, obsession, and a desperate hunger to be seen.
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The Starving Bride

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  • Paperback

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    6 October 2026

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Summary

“A captivating reading experience.”

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Provocative and utterly gripping, The Starving Bride is a razor-sharp exploration of beauty, shame, the impacts of ignoring the warning signs of catastrophe and the dangerous allure of spectacle in a world that can’t look away.

England, the near future.

Dumped by her boyfriend, fired from her job and estranged from her parents, Hazel Whitlock signs up for a sideshow act in Blackpoo…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781761623073
ISBN-10:1761623079
Author:Catherine Chidgey
Publisher:Penguin Random House Australia
Imprint:Penguin Random House Australia
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:6 October 2026
Weight:505g
Dimensions:16mm x 153mm x 234mm
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The Starving Bride by Catherine Chidgey - ISBN: 9781761623073
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About The Author

Catherine Chidgey

Catherine Chidgey is a multiple award-winning author whose novels have achieved international acclaim.

  • The Axeman’s Carnival was a number one bestseller in her native New Zealand and won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction.
  • Her previous novel, Pet, was also a number one bestseller in New Zealand.
  • Remote Sympathy was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
  • Her debut, In a Fishbone Church, won Best First Book at both the New Zealand Book Awards and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (South-East Asia and South Pacific region). It also won the Betty Trask Award and was longlisted for the Orange Prize.
  • Her second novel, Golden Deeds, was a Notable Book of the Year in the New York Times Book Review and a Best Book in the LA Times.
  • The Wish Child also won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction.

Other honours include the Prize in Modern Letters, the Katherine Mansfield Award, the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship, the Janet Frame Fiction Prize, and the Nielsen Independent New Zealand Bestseller award.

Catherine Chidgey lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Waikato.

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