Review: The Catch

This is exquisite! If you are familiar with Mick Herron’s Slough House series, then you know how clever his writing is. The beauty of a novella, a mere 105 pages, is that the author cannot waste a word, and Herron doesn’t. Every sentence is deliberate: dense and witty and sometimes melancholy.
John Bachelor is a man who has fallen on very hard times, and you desperately hope that things will not get worse for him - but they do! My husband and I both read The Catch and keep referring back to it. For a tiny book, it packs an emotional punch. Highly recommended.

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