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 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.

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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. 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.

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'Sally Rooney meets The Secret History' - The Sunday Times

'Dazzling' - Colin Walsh, author of Kala
**'Brilliant'** - The Times
**'Ingenious'** - The Telegraph
**'Terrific'** - The New York Times
**'Heartbreaking'** - The Guardian

THE HEART IS A LOCKED ROOM

Abigail's brother Benjamin is dead, and her world has literally been split in two. In one reality Abigail finds herself back at work, navigating the frustrations of well-wishers and busybodies, desperately wondering why her brother has gone. In the other an eminent detective arrives determined to find Benjamin's killer among his circle of close friends.

Is this a murder mystery or something more? What secrets do Benjamin's friends hold? And can Abigail, immersed in her grief, find out the truth of her beloved brother's life.

'A treat . . . Takes on the biggest questions of life and death' - PAUL MURRAY, author of THE BEE STING