Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 11 hours ago
Catherine Chidgey, author of Remote Sympathy, joined LBI's Book Club to discuss her novel – an exquisitely readable, polyphonic story of domestic drama and human connection set in and around a concentration camp in Germany during World War II and its aftermath.
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, and was longlisted for the Orange Prize. Golden Deed 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 fourth novel, The Wish Child, was published in 2016 and won the 2017 Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize, the country's richest literary prize.
Catherine Chidgey, author of Remote Sympathy, joined LBI's Book Club to discuss her novel – an exquisitely readable, polyphonic story of domestic drama and human connection set in and around a concentration camp in Germany during World War II and its aftermath.
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, and was longlisted for the Orange Prize. Golden Deed 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 fourth novel, The Wish Child, was published in 2016 and won the 2017 Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize, the country's richest literary prize.
