Pet

"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 *

"Pet is a page-turning psychological thriller: tense, uncomfortable and completely gripping."

* NZ Hera