With an introduction by David Mitchell

Isserley spends most of her time driving. But why is she so interested in picking up hitchhikers? And why are they always male, well-built and alone?

An utterly unpredictable and macabre mystery, Under the Skin is a genre-defying masterpiece.

"Profound and disturbing . . . Faber writes superbly" - * Sunday Times *

"This is a man who could give Conrad a run at writing the perfect sentence" - * Guardian *

"Teases and prods the reader up a plethora of literary blind alleys before hauling them screaming towards its final, thrilling destination" - * Daily Telegraph *

"Strange, adept, original . . . Would that more first novels were as adventurous or as funky and daring in their conception" - * Independent on Sunday *

"A brilliantly compressed drama of threat and ambiguity . . . Recalling writers such as Jim Crace and Russell Hoban, Under the Skin, like Faber's short stories, is an extremely assured and imaginative work" - * Observer *

"Astonishingly, this is Michel Faber's first novel. It is audacious, fascinating, repellent and quite unlike anything I have ever read" - * Mail on Sunday *

"Under the Skin is a shocking and fantastical take on modern humanity" - * The Week *

"The fantastic is so nicely played against the day-to-day that one feels the strangeness of both . . . A remarkable novel" - * New York Times *