Synopsis
This is a murder mystery.
This is a story about love.
Or is it? . . .
Fair Play is the puzzle-box story of two competing tales that brilliantly lay bare the real truth of life - the terrifying mystery of grief.
'A treat – clever, confident, and always surprising' - Paul Murray, author of THE BEE STING
Abigail and her brother Benjamin have...
Details
03 April 2025288 pages
9781035036141Imprint: 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 Paul Murray, author of The Bee Sting
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
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 . . . Sad, funny, clever, engrossing; this is a wonderful debut.Jon McGregor, author of Reservoir 13
