Television producer Minerva Watkins can’t claim to be too busy. Laid off from her last job, Marry Me or Else!—the show that tries to unite self-confessed spinsters with the men who dreams aren’t made of—Minerva figures it’s time for a change.

She decides to make the move from the big city to the tiny fishing village of Tuck Harbour, PEI, where catches are running low and local feeling is running high. Working the counter at Eats n’ Treats, Minerva gets to know the colourful locals, including Joe McTeal, Tuck Harbour’s most notorious eligible bachelor. But try as she might to love Joe and the quaint fishing village, Minerva can’t quite ignore the call of the big city.

A comical look at the upside of marrying down and the downside of marrying up, The Catch is a modern-day Anne of Green Gables with all the sass, sex and smart dialogue that made Six Weeks to Toxic one of the most popular debut novels of 2006.

(Key Porter, Can 2006, US 2007, Stolitsa-Print, Russian; Kragozor, Bulgarian, 2007)
 
“A clear-eyed, fast-paced depiction of ambition and female friendship, Six Weeks to Toxic begins with a hangover and ends with the loss of a best friend. In between, Louisa McCormack reminds us that we sometimes have to lose what we have in order to win what we need.”
     - David Layton, author of The Bird Factory

“Six Weeks to Toxic is delicious! Rich in character, smart and sexy, it's a highly enjoyable read, and one that I'm sure most of us, especially as women, can relate to.”
     - Tanya Kim eTalk Daily

“Six Weeks to Toxic has the hyper-quick, no-nonsense dialogue of Gilmour Girls, the consistently surreal discussions of kinky sex, penis size and designer clothing of Sex and the City, and the sneaky, conniving, shallow, but compelling women of Desperate Housewives…. Six Weeks to Toxic is a new breed. The thinking girl’s chick-lit…. McCormack is a quick and deft writer. Witty, concise, controlled…. It’s fun, sassy, sexy, wild and … it’s self-indulgent.
     - The Globe and Mail

“Louisa McCormack has written the perfect guilty-pleasure novel…. It’s a fast-paced, honest account of two hetero gals pals nearing their mid-30s and treating each other badly in the name of best friends forever…. Funny and entertaining."
     - Now magazine

“Breezy and compelling.”
     - Flare

“Six Weeks to Toxic is a sharp, sexy and witty read that delves into the female psyche.”
     - Weekly Scoop

“Tales of relationship dramas, awkward parental visits and botched dinner parties are peppered with laugh-out-loud moments. Just right for a lazy afternoon.”
     - WISH magazine

“Toronto author Louisa McCormack has more interesting things to talk, think and write about than boys… On the surface, it looks as though [Maxine and Bess are] torn apart when they meet guys they'd actually like to commit to, but there's more to it than that. McCormack’s plot touches on issues of family pressure to conform, class and money as dating issues and being a single woman in a world that fetishizes youth.”
     - The Toronto Star

“Louisa McCormack pushes chick lit in a new direction.”
     - Elle Canada

“A treatise on the complex character of female friendship.... The writing, to be sure, is smart.”
     - Vancouver Sun

“A Hogtown version of Sex and the City”
     - Winnipeg Free Press

“[McCormack] writes with verve and originality.”
     - Books in Canada