Scabrous, vicious and unpleasant in life, Lily Bloom has not been
noticeably mellowed by death. She has changed addresses, of course, and now
inhabits a basement flat in Dulston - London's borough for those no longer
troubled by breathing - but if anything her temperament has worsened.
Finding it hard to deal with the (enforced) company of a calcified, pop-
obsessed foetus, her dead, foul-mouthed son and three gruesome creatures
made of her own unwanted fat, she must find something to do with her time.
So how do the dead live? And what happens when they stop being dead?