About the book: 2009 / For the first time in Russian - one of the iconic novels of the famous British Martin Amis (son of the no less famous writer Kingsley Amis), a transitional link from “Success” to “Money”. Suffering from total amnesia, Mary the Lamb (she came up with a name for herself) wanders like a ghost through the various sgrate of London society, unconsciously playing the role of a femme fatale everywhere. The police claim that a certain Mr. Devil tried to kill her - and he himself admitted to it. Mary, trying to find a place for herself in a new life and find traces of her past life, everywhere finds confirmation of Sartre’s catchphrase: “Hell is other people” ... “A metaphysical thriller ... Kafka, reshot in the manner of Hitchcock’s “Psychosis” - this is how he described “Other people » J. G. Ballard.