turn straight round and leave anything you've got on you that's valuable somewhere safe – that load of no-hopers'll have it off you somehow or other if not, they'll find a way.And don't turn your back on your motor while you're up there ...
It's 1988 and Lily Bloom, a 65-year-old American lies dying of cancer in a London hospital.
It’s a novel that will disturb and provoke, the work, in the words of one British reviewer, “of a novelist writing at the height of his powers.”
Lily Bloom, an elderly American dying of cancer in a British hospital, retraces her life and then enters a rather banal world of the dead.
How the Dead Liveis filled not with victims of the many major traumas of our times but with individuals whose lives have been wrested from their control by the random...