The Wish Child

About Catherine Chidgey

Catherine Chidgey was born in 1970. She has degrees in creative writing psychology and German literature and lived in Berlin for three years. Her debut novel In a Fishbone Church (Warm subtle and evocative Louis de Bernières) won the South East Asia and Pacific Region Prize in the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel a Betty Trask Prize and was longlisted for the Orange Prize. Her second novel Golden Deeds was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year followed by The Transformation (As beautiful as it is terrifying Sunday Express) in 2006. Chidgey lives in Ngaruawahia New Zealand.Intelligent lyrical disciplined and observant she is the real deal the star of her generation. New Zealand ListenerChidgey is a gifted writer and her confident commanding prose and vivid atmospherics hold the attention. Guardian