The Book of Guilt

Set in a sinisterly skewed version of England in 1979, a major new novel from the acclaimed and internationally-bestselling author of Pet.

Catherine Chidgey is the author of In a Fishbone Church (1998), Golden Deeds (2000), The Transformation (2003), The Wish Child (2016), the 'found novel' The Beat of the Pendulum (2019), Remote Sympathy (2021), Pet (2023) and The Axeman's Carnival (2024). Her novels have been published to international acclaim and have been shortlisted and won numerous prizes. She lives in Ng-ruaw-hia, New Zealand, and lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Waikato.