Foul is Fair

Author Hannah Capin
Narrator Emily Lawrence
Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
Run Time 10 hours and 38 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Children’s / Teenage fiction: Crime and mystery fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: School stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Thrillers.

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"Fierce, vicious, and electric. If books had teeth, Foul Is Fair would have fangs." - Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, author of Last Girl Lied To

"An unapologetic feminist battle-cry that leaves you breathless and thirsting for vengeance." - Sonia Hartl, author of Have a Little Faith in Me

"Foul is Fair delivers the story of a girl who snatches control back from a world that stole it away, through whatever means necessary. - Sophie Gonzales, author of Only Mostly Devastated

In the morning I put on going-out makeup, and I go to Nailed It with a coffee so hot it burns my throat.

The old lady gives me new nails and looks at the bruises on my neck and the scratches across my face, but she doesn't say anything.

So I point at my hair, and I say, This color. You know what it's called?

She shakes her head: No.

I say, REVENGE.

Jade Khanjara and her three best friends rule their glittering LA circle. They decide how the party ends - every night but one. The night four boys spike Jade's drink, lock her in a room and brutally attack her. The night they try to ruin her.

But they chose the wrong girl. Certain that the boys will face no consequences, Jade and her friends take vengeance into their own hands. There's no mercy left: and now Jade won't rest until she gets bloody satisfaction . . .

An extraordinary voice-driven thriller with a heroine you'll never forget - perfect for fans of Killing Eve and One of Us Is Lying.

© Hannah Capin 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Critics Review

Fierce, ruthless and unputdownable
Karen McManus, bestselling author of One Of Us Is Lying
A tale of power and retribution – Macbeth for Gen Z
The Sun
Post-#MeToo, novels aimed at teenage girls frequently revolve around topics of consent, slut-shaming and revenge porn. The haste to be timely can mean half-cooked ingredients, something Hannah Capin’s Foul Is Fair could never be accused of: rather Capin turns the heat up high to roast setting…wicked fun!
Financial Times
Rhythmic, propulsive prose drives this bloody retelling of Macbeth at a relentless pace all the way to its violent end…impossible to put down.
Kirkus
Capin’s twisty, blood-soaked take on Shakespeare’s play is a propulsive, white-hot juggernaut of vengeance that packs a viscerally satisfying punch.
Publishers Weekly
This isn’t a how-to-murder-your-classmates manual; it’s a ferocious, frenzied reaction to a world that has, for too long, treated women as collateral damage in stories that have been deemed more important than theirs … Jade’s first-person narrative, steeped in rage and drenched, unapologetically, with gore, moves at a relentless pace.
Booklist, starred review
This book is not to be missed.
Paste
This revenge fantasy told from the point of view of a rape survivor will shock and awe.
School Library Journal
Fierce, vicious, and electric
Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, author of Last Girl Lied To
[A] dark, brutal revenge fantasy, sharply feminist and brimming with melodic prose
Dana Mele, author of People Like Us

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