"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
“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.” — Colin Walsh, author of Kala
"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