PET, by Catherine Chidgey (THWUP, $38)
Hot on the heels of her second Acorn Prize for fiction, for ’ comes Catherine Chidgey’s eighth novel, which is of course utterly brilliant. No surprises there. A bit of a thriller, is et in a Catholic intermediate school in Wellington and an Auckland rest home, and packed with ideas far beyond the genre’s remit, so the risk of spoilers limits what can be said