Out on 03 April 2025
Book cover for Fair Play

Fair Play

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03 April 2025
288 pages
9781035036165
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

A fiendishly designed, intricately layered, psychologically astute tale, and so elegantly written too. I've never read anything like it . . . a story of striking originality. I am full of admiration.
An ingenious puzzle-box of a novel, where nothing is solved but everything is discovered. Louise Hegarty plays - often hilariously, always knowingly - with the forms and conventions of detective fiction, constantly pulling the rug from under the reader in a manner that echoes, heart-wrenchingly, the rug-pull at the heart of it all. Sad, funny, clever, engrossing; this is a wonderful debut.
Dazzling, formally subversive, brimming with compassion, Fair Play explodes the conventions of a mystery in order to confront us with the genuinely mysterious. An emotional ambush of a novel, this book will delight readers – then it will haunt them