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Pet Catherine Chidgey

Pet par Catherine Chidgey

Pet Catherine Chidgey

€14.50
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Très bon état

Résumé

When a charismatic new teacher arrives, everyone longs to be her pet. A gripping story of deception and guilt, set in a Catholic girls' school during the 1980s.

Pet Résumé

Pet: A new novel from the Women's Prize longlisted 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. Young as she is, 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: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Go-Between, Heavenly Creatures and Au Revoir Les Enfants among them.

Pet Avis

A superb character study, delivered with panache.

* The Bookseller's Fiction Book of the Month *

A remarkable and original writer, whose novels have the golden combination of being both riveting and superbly-written.

* Lissa Evans *

A dark and compelling story of guilt and betrayal. Add to it a near-perfect plot twist and you have a novel that lives long in the mind.

* Alex Preston *

Catherine Chidgey mobilises the misgivings shared by all children who love and lose, the fear of being odd, the longing to be special, the horror of being supplanted. Pet is a novel hard not to swallow entire in one go, by when the reader will be full of hooks and wary as an old pike.

* Candia McWilliam *

Catherine Chidgey brilliantly evokes the very particular preoccupations, fascinations, and cruelties of 11 and 12 year olds. The story is built of details which accumulate in a growing unease till the reader too begins to doubt her own judgement. Rivetingly tense and observant.

* Elizabeth Cook *

Refreshing, compelling and surprising, this novel skirts around familiar tropes to deliver something new and troubling. Sharp writing, keen observations and killer wit.

* Ann Morgan *

À propos de Catherine Chidgey

Catherine Chidgey is an award-winning and bestselling New Zealand novelist and short-story writer. Her first novel, In a Fishbone Church, won the Betty Trask Award. Golden Deeds was Time Out's book of the year, a Best Book in the LA Times Book Review, and a Notable Book in the New York Times Book Review. Her most recent novel, Remote Sympathy, was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction.

Informations supplémentaires

GOR013100844
9781787704732
1787704734
Pet: A new novel from the Women's Prize longlisted author of Remote Sympathy Catherine Chidgey
Catherine Chidgey
Occasion - Très bon état
Broché
Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
20230713
336
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