Never did i ever think i could find such a wonderful writer. Throughout the book i remained gripped by the unpredictable sequences within the storyline and the complexities of the characters, even the characters which die in the first chapter. Toby Litt creates a constant atmosphere which changes suitably with the mood of the main character as he slowly starts to, basically, lose his marbles. At first i belived that this book would be no good, mainly based upon the shortness of the chapters, but i admit i greatly misjudged. Short but sweet and left you wanting to read more and more. As you progress in the story things become a lot more twisted. Many of the ...  Read the complete review

Unlike the previous reviewer I thought that the observations of the acting community were what made this novel. Lily, and especially her lover and his dreadful family, are brilliantly portrayed; their selfishness, arrogance and self-delusion perfectly pitched. I did agree with the previous reviewer, however, in finding the detailed descriptions of the various travels of the bullets through the body rather interesting. But the method of presenting these descriptions - as intermittent disruptions in the story - just seemed unnecessarily tricksy. As for the crime itself - it bored the hell out of me. I really didn't care who or what Lily was. Nor did I ...  Read the complete review

Lily was a moderately successful actress, with a sequence of cult TV ads to her name. She was also Conrad's ex-girlfriend. Until the night she invited Conrad to dinner in an expensive London restaurant and was shot dead in front of him, by a lycra-clad cyclist-gunman, who planted three bullets in Conrad too, for good measure. Corpsing tells the story of Conrad's recovery... from the bullet wounds, from the shock of Lily's death, from his break up with her. The recuperation process takes a particular form for Conrad. He turns detective and avenger... deciding early on that "there is someone out there whom it is now his duty to kill." ...  Read the complete review