The Starving Bride by Catherine Chidgey review – a girl wastes away in a gothic near-future

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The New Zealand author’s ninth novel is gorgeously written, but feels tame and almost quaint against the real world of GLP-1 drugs and looksmaxxing Catherine Chidgey’s new novel was inspired by a magnificent piece of archival flotsam: a 1930s newspap…

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  • The New Zealand author’s ninth novel is gorgeously written, but feels tame and almost quaint against the real world of GLP-1 drugs and looksmaxxing Catherine Chidgey’s new novel was inspired by a magnificent piece of archival flotsam: a 1930s newspap…
  • Reported by The Guardian and published Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:00:21 UTC.

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