The Starving Bride
$29.54
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
8 October 2026
Summary
Look at her. How serene she is in her long white dress, eyes closed like a stone copy of herself. Perhaps she lives on air. We would like a little piece of her – a hank of hair, a pared fingernail slender as a new moon, a wisp of skin peeled from a sunburned shoulder…
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 cance…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781776923199 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1776923197 |
| Author: | Catherine Chidgey |
| Publisher: | Te Herenga Waka University Press |
| Imprint: | Te Herenga Waka University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 8 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 250g |
| Dimensions: | 8mm x 153mm x 234mm |
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Catherine Chidgey
Catherine Chidgey lives in Cambridge and lectures in creative writing at the University of Waikato. The internationally bestselling author of ten novels, she has won the Prize in Modern Letters, the Katherine Mansfield Award, the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship, the Janet Frame Fiction Prize, and the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction twice. Her previous novel, The Book of Guilt, completed a trilogy of novels about twentieth-century totalitarianism.
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