Internationally celebrated Kiwi author Catherine Chidgey is about to release her seventh novel, The Axeman’s Carnival, narrated by a cheeky magpie called Tama. While the talking, trickster bird witnessing the crumbling marriage of the main characters is far from reality, Catherine’s personal experiences with infertility and surrogacy are often lurking between the lines.
“The figure of the missing, lost or deeply wanted child has always haunted the margins of my work,” says Catherine, openly sharing how she and husband Alan Bekhuis struggled to
