Catherine Chidgey: Transformations

Catherine Chidgey has received critical acclaim, both here and overseas, and a deluge of awards, since the publication of her first novel, In a Fishbone Church, in 1998. Its successors – Golden Deeds, The Transformation, The Wish Child and The Beat of the Pendulum – have won her a reputation for startling originality of imagination and superb, cutting-edge prose. This is an author unafraid to tackle colourful and challenging topics – murder and Meccano, wig-making, Nazi Germany, her own infertility – and transform them into extraordinary tales. Catherine Chidgey is in conversation with Morrin Rout.