The Starving Bride
$27.99
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
6 October 2026
Summary
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 Blackpool. The seaside resort has revived all the cancelled old favourites and she will be the Starving B…
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: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 6 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 505g |
| Dimensions: | 153mm x 234mm x 16mm |
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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 also won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction.
- Pet was 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. 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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