Catherine Chidgey
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About the Author
Among Catherine Chidgey’s other honours, her first novel, In a Fishbone Church, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Novel (Pacific and South East Asia) and The Betty Trask Award and was longlisted for the Orange Prize. Her second novel, Golden Deeds, was a bestseller in New Zealand and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year (as The Strength of the Sun).