Fair Play
03 April 2025
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
'Sad, funny, clever, engrossing; this is a wonderful debut.' - Jon McGregor, author of Reservoir 13
'A dark, twisting, dismantling work . . . I've never read anything like it' - Emma Stonex, author of The Lamplighters
'Dazzling, formally subversive, brimming with compassion' - Colin Walsh, author of Kala
A LOCKED ROOM.
A HIDDEN LIFE.
Abigail and her brother Benjamin have always been close. To...
Details
03 April 2025
540 minutes
9781035036172
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.Emma Stonex, author of The Lamplighters
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.Jon McGregor, author of Reservoir 13
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 themColin Walsh, author of Kala