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Under the Skin

By Michel Faber

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And why are they always male, well-built and along?An utterly unpredictable and macabremystery, Michel Faber's debut novel is an outstanding piece of fiction ...

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The hitchhiker's guide to the cleavage

Under The Skin Michel Faber Canongate £9.99, pp296 Buy it at BOL Every morning, a woman named Isserley sets off on the A9 in Rosshire to look for hitchhikers. Although she's lived in a cottage near the Moray Firth for the past four years, the beauty ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

Flesh-creeping

Under The Skin Michel Faber Canongate, £9.99, 296pp Buy it at BOL Like the sun in the Highlands, Michel Faber has been threatening for so long now that I had begun to think of him as a myth - a sly fabulist way up there in the heather invented by Edi ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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4 Reviews

Strange but entertaining enough

I was a bit disappointed reading this after the excellent Crimson Petal and the White. It's not the kind of book I would normally go for and I only chose it because I wanted to read something else by the same author.
It's entertaining enough and it definitely gets better towards the end but I fou ... (continue)

I was a bit disappointed reading this after the excellent Crimson Petal and the White. It's not the kind of book I would normally go for and I only chose it because I wanted to read something else by the same author.
It's entertaining enough and it definitely gets better towards the end but I found the majority of the book pretty average. Sorry Michel! I'm sure you have a lot more up your sleeve for future books!

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Danielle said on Jan 13, 2012 about the eBook edition | Add your feedback

Recommended to me by one of my colleagues as one of the most disturbing books they have ever read, I was keen to see what this was like. Initially the tale of a lone woman roaming the roads of Scotland, looking for hitchhikers seems to jar against your sense of the natural order of things. Soon this ... (continue)

Recommended to me by one of my colleagues as one of the most disturbing books they have ever read, I was keen to see what this was like. Initially the tale of a lone woman roaming the roads of Scotland, looking for hitchhikers seems to jar against your sense of the natural order of things. Soon this though starts to make sense, as this dark tale takes you further than you think into its disturbing world. Well written with excellent twists, I have since read more by this author and continued to enjoy (in the loosest sense of the word) his work.

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AkiraNone said on Mar 3, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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you are what you eat - and if you eat meat, you are a monster AND an alien. definitely the most terrifying book i ever put my eyes on. middle way between sf and a vegetarian critical theory: but how it hurts to see living beings maimed and butchered, with exactly the same consideration we apply to a ... (continue)

you are what you eat - and if you eat meat, you are a monster AND an alien. definitely the most terrifying book i ever put my eyes on. middle way between sf and a vegetarian critical theory: but how it hurts to see living beings maimed and butchered, with exactly the same consideration we apply to animals. disturbing and creepy, but good.

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Elsastella said on Feb 27, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback