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Fair Play
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
A LOCKED ROOM.
A HIDDEN LIFE.
Abigail and her brother Benjamin have always been close. To celebrate his birthday, Abigail hires a grand old house and gathers...
Details
540 minutes
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