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Pet - Paperback

Pet - Paperback

by Catherine Chidgey
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by Catherine Chidgey (Author)

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
The Washington Post・The New Yorker ・Slate・CrimeReads・Good Housekeeping・Amazon Book Review


A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE


A suspenseful new psychological thriller from the Women's Prize for Fiction longlisted and Dublin Literary Award shortlisted author of Remote Sympathy, Catherine Chidgey.


Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic new teacher and longs to be her pet. However, when a thief begins to target the school, Justine's sense that something isn't quite right grows ever stronger. With each twist of the plot, this gripping story of deception and the corrosive power of guilt takes a yet darker turn. Justine must decide where her loyalties lie.


Set in New Zealand in the 1980s and probing themes of racism, misogyny and the oppressive reaches of Catholicism, Pet will take a rightful place next to other classic portraits of childhood betrayal and psychological suspense: Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures, Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock, and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping among them.


"Refreshing, compelling and surprising."--Ann Morgan, author of Beside Myself and Reading the World


Number of Pages: 336
Dimensions: 1.1 x 8.2 x 5.3 IN
Publication Date: August 08, 2023
ISBN9781609459307
Author Catherine Chidgey
PublisherEuropa Editions
GenreLiterature and Young adult
FormatPaperback
PublishedAugust 2023
LanguageENG- English
Pages336
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

Related Subjects

Coming of Age Fiction Literary Psychological Social Themes Thrillers Young Adult Coming of Age Young Adult Fiction Young Adults

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About Catherine Chidgey

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 the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. 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 and a Best Book in the LA Times. Catherine has won the Prize in Modern Letters, the Katherine Mansfield Award, the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship and the Janet Frame Fiction Prize. Her novel Remote Sympathy was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. Her novels The Wish Child and The Axeman's Carnival both won the Acorn Prize for Fiction, New Zealand's most prestigious literary award. She lives in Cambridge, New Zealand, and lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Waikato.

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