Not Working 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 © 2016 by Lisa Owens

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by The Dial Press, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

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Published in the United Kingdom by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, London.

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Names: Owens, Lisa.

Title: Not working : a novel / Lisa Owens.

Description: First edition. | New York : The Dial Press, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015042040 | ISBN 9780812988819 (hardback) | ISBN 9780812988826 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Unemployed women workers—Fiction. | Self-actualization (Psychology) in women—Fiction. | Self-realization in women—Fiction. | Psychological fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Contemporary Women. | FICTION / Literary. | FICTION / Humorous. | GSAFD: Humorous fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3615.W4695 N68 2016 | DDC 813/.6—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/​2015042040

eBook ISBN 9780812988826

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