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Getting the Electric
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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.
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.
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Expected publication April 30, 2026
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February 24, 2026
✨ 4.75 (round up)
“it felt like they didn’t need sustenance they were sustaining themselves”
If you enjoy inventive storytelling devices and techniques, then this is the book for you!
Each chapter is its own short story and every single one is told in such a unique way, and it worked so well.
Of course, as with every collection, I enjoyed some more than others, but Hegarty has such a great way with words that this had me enraptured throughout.
This does cover a LOT of very heavy and potentially triggering topics, so I recommend checking out the trigger warnings before you dive in.
Thank you so much to Book Break UK and Picador for this stunning ARC. Getting The Electric is out on May 28th.
“it felt like they didn’t need sustenance they were sustaining themselves”
If you enjoy inventive storytelling devices and techniques, then this is the book for you!
Each chapter is its own short story and every single one is told in such a unique way, and it worked so well.
Of course, as with every collection, I enjoyed some more than others, but Hegarty has such a great way with words that this had me enraptured throughout.
This does cover a LOT of very heavy and potentially triggering topics, so I recommend checking out the trigger warnings before you dive in.
Thank you so much to Book Break UK and Picador for this stunning ARC. Getting The Electric is out on May 28th.
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