Other People
A Mystery Story

Another succulent piece of fiction best summed up by J.G. Ballard: "Powerful and obsessive… Other People is a metaphysical thriller, Kafka reshot in the style of Psycho". Hah, I love that take on this very strange and obsessive piece of work. An amnesiac woman called Mary, finds herself in the compa......more

This is, in my opinion, Martin Amis's most underrated work. Published long before his more celebrated masterpieces, it is the product of a writer who is experimenting with his power but fully comfortable in his own voice. The protagonist "Mary Lamb" has no idea who she is -- has no idea who or what......more

Other People isn't a tale of Visitation. The just sleep of the Elect isn't to be shattered by ghostly moralizing. The world of our entitlement is instead simply upended, allowing the dark bits to pour to the fore. London is revealed through a Ballardian lens. Colors and smells are enhanced, but thin......more

I picked out this book out when I was plundering the shelves of my university’s library for something new to read and because the cover, with its fractured great blue eye, reminded me of something out of a cyberpunk novel. Nothing of the kind, though it would be quite hard to label this novel. It st......more

A woman wakes up with no memory of her past and no idea who she is. Amnesia. But this is not the amnesia of soap operas; the loss of memory represented in this book goes far beyond forgetting one’s name and address. Most of the narrative is from the woman’s point of view, and because she does not kn......more