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

Louise Hegarty’s genre-splicing debut is a treat – clever, confident, and always surprising, a mystery story that ingeniously escapes the locked room of the genre to take on the biggest questions of life and death
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
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 . . . Sad, funny, clever, engrossing; this is a wonderful debut.