Fair Play
03 April 2025Imprint: Picador
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.
'Dazzling, formally subversive, brimming with compassion' - Colin Walsh, author of Kala
'Sad, funny, clever, engrossing; this is a wonderful debut.' -...
Details
03 April 2025288 pages
9781035036165Imprint: Picador
Reviews
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
With each turn of a page the plot thickens masterfully and the form twists like a wicked game. Get to the Louise Hegarty party early, she’s brilliant.Jodie Harsh, author of You Had To Be There
