Scarlett Thomas - Dead Clever

I reckon that Scarlett Thomas is still my leading literary crush by some considerable margin, that position being down mostly to her latter day, more literary novels (most particularly, PopCo and The End of Mr Y) and, to an extent, various interviews, etc, and much less so to the trio (?) of detective novels she wrote while starting out. Dead Clever falls into that last category, but it has its own pleasures, chief among them a likeable central protagonist in Lily Pascale and a sharpness of voice and prose that's characteristic of all of Thomas' writing (last time).