'PHENOMENALLY TALENTED' - The Sunday Times

Are you ready to play?

Have you ever found yourself doom-scrolling, worrying about that weird pain in your leg, only to have your plans for the day completely trashed by the appearance of a literal axe-wielding troll?

What about that time you came across a perfect double of yourself in the street?

Or the gorilla suit you put on one day only for it to fuse with your skin?

When those children went missing from your village, did you know for sure it was the electricity that took them?

And down in the basement of your ancestral family home, what is it that’s making that THUMP . . . THUMP . . . THUMP . . .

Bold, funny, and wild, Louise Hegarty’s debut collection will turn you upside down and inside out, if it doesn’t take you apart completely.

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PRAISE FOR FAIR PLAY

‘A treat . . . Takes on the biggest questions of life and death’ - Paul Murray
‘Dazzling' - Colin Walsh
‘Brilliant’ - The Times
‘Ingenious’ - The Telegraph
‘Terrific’ - The New York Times
‘Heartbreaking’ - The Guardian
‘Sally Rooney meets The Secret History’ - The Sunday Times

Louise Hegarty’s stories have appeared in Banshee, The Tangerine, The Stinging Fly and The Dublin Review and have been featured on BBC Radio 4. She was the inaugural winner of the Sunday Business Post/Penguin Ireland Short Story Prize and recently her story ‘Now, Voyager’ was produced as part of A City and A Garden, a new state-of-the-art sonic experience commissioned by Sounds from a Safe Harbour in association with Body & Soul and presented as part of Brightening Air | Coiscéim Coiligh. Her short story ‘Getting the Electric’, originally published in The Stinging Fly, has been optioned by Fíbín Media. Fair Play is her debut novel.