Getting the Electric
$29.64
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2026
Summary
‘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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035037544 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035037548 |
| Author: | Louise Hegarty |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2026 |
| Weight: | 274g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 137mm x 216mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Louise Hegarty can do anything. She’s fearless. And I loved these playful, clever, perfect stories – Mariana Enriquez, author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Melancholy, comic and tender … Hegarty has a gift for constructing uniquely weird worlds with something dark burning at the core – Leon Craig, author of The Decadence
Formally promiscuous, dark, jolting and rapturous … It’s difficult to imagine a more perfect dispatch from 2020’s Ireland than Borges for the CMAT generation – and here it is * The Irish Times *
Louise Hegarty
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 sonic experience commissioned by Sounds from a Safe Harbour in association with Body & Soul. 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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