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The Starving Bride by Catherine Chidgey review – a girl wastes away in a gothic near-future

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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

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Books
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Beejay Silcox
Published
Oct 8, 2026, 2:00 PM UTC
Updated
Oct 8, 2026, 11:18 PM UTC

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