The Catch is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2022 by Alison Fairbrother

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Fairbrother, Alison, author.

Title: The catch: a novel / Alison Fairbrother.

Description: First edition. | New York: Random House, [2022]

Identifiers: LCCN 2021034300 (print) | LCCN 2021034301 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593134290 (hardcover; acid-free paper) | ISBN 9780593134306 (ebook)

Classification: LCC PS3606.A365 C38 2022 (print) | LCC PS3606.A365 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at lccn.loc.gov/​2021034300

LC ebook record available at lccn.loc.gov/​2021034301

Ebook ISBN 9780593134306

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