Martin Amis, London Fields

 

There is a murderer, there is a murderee, and there is a foil.

This is the story of a woman who is seeking to bring about her own murder…or is it the story of writing the story of a woman who is seeking…it’s Amis, you get the idea.

I can’t do better than the Guardian review here:

This book is a cheat. A con-trick. From start to finish, all 470 pages of it, it’s an elaborate tease. A whodunnit without a motive. A meditation on the way the world ends which turns out to be just another metaphor for the writing of fiction.

A con, but an intriguing and well-written con.