Catch
By (Author) Sarah Brill
Allen & Unwin
A&U Children
30th September 2025
Australia
Young Adult
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories
Paperback
304
Width 153mm, Height 234mm
Sometimes people fall. It happens. Sometimes people are pushed. Sometimes people jump. And sometimes there's someone there to catch them.
The summer Beth turns sixteen, she grows. She grows so fast her bones hurt and she feels like throwing up. Everyone - including Etienne, the boy who lives over the road - looks at her differently. Then she starts catching people. People who are falling out of trees or from tall buildings.
Soon Beth discovers that helping strangers sometimes hurts. Sometimes it also hurts or annoys the people she loves. It isn't great for her school grades, either. Is there a way to balance family and friendship and basketball and romance and ... catching
An extraordinary story about finding out who you are, and discovering who you want to be.
Sarah Brill grew up in Perth, Western Australia and began writing at the age of fifteen. She initially focused on playwrighting but also wrote for film and radio. After having children, Sarah started working in sustainability-related fields and writing when she could. Her first novel, Glory, was published in 2002. Her second novel, Symphony for the Man, was published in 2020. Sarah lives in Sydney with her three sons and two cats.