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The Starving Bride by Catherine Chidgey review – a girl wastes away in a gothic near-future
The Guardian Australia
October 8, 2026
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<p>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</p><p>Catherine Chidgey’s new novel was inspired by a magnificent piece of archival flotsam: a 1930s newspaper report of a bizarre
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