Set in a sinisterly skewed version of England, Catherine Chidgey’s astonishing new novel, The Book of Guilt, is a story told through the eyes of Vincent (one of three identical triplets) and the lonely but observant single child, Lucy. Claire Mabey, who will lead the kōrero with one of our greatest storytellers, describes what is Chidgey's third book in as many years, as both a page-turner and deeply serious work.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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 (2017), Remote Sympathy (2020), The Axeman’s Carnival (2022) and Pet (2023). Her novels have been published to international acclaim and have been shortlisted and won numerous prizes including, the Women’s Prize and, twice, the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction. She lives in Cambridge and lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Waikato.