This week's Book of the Week is Catherine Chidgey's exquisitely written novel The Wish Child, which has just won the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. 

>> Read Stella's review. 

>> Read an excerpt. 

>> Wrestling with her inner critic. 

>> Two births in one year. 

>> A night at the Ockhams in a not-very-good seat.