Getting the Electric

di Louise Hegarty (Autore)

Pan Macmillan, 2026

'Louise Hegarty can do anything. She's fearless. And I loved these playful, clever, perfect stories' - MARIANA ENRIQUEZ 'Melancholy, comic and tender . . . Hegarty has a gift for constructing uniquely weird worlds with something dark burning at the core' - LEON CRAIG '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. * * * * * 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

• Autore: Louise Hegarty
• Editore: Pan Macmillan
• Anno: 2026
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 256 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 137 mm
• Peso: 274 gr.
• EAN: 9781035037544

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