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Catherine Chidgey: The Book of Guilt

An unsettling, unusual, brilliant dystopian vision of 1970s England

Catherine Chidgey (Photo credit Ebony Lamb)
Beejay Silcox
Friday 23 May 2025
3-4pm
Event Code: 74
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Commonwealth Writers’ Prize winner Catherine Chidgey’s 9th novel, The Book of Guilt, sparked an international bidding war.

With undertones of Shirley Jackson and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, the story’s teenage triplets discover – when the government decides to shut down their home – that some lives are valued more than others in this dystopian 1970s England.

Join Catherine, in conversation with Beejay Silcox, to hear about her deeply unnerving new novel.
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