Under the Skin

"A wonderful book - painful, lyrical, frightening, brilliant . . . I couldn't put it down." -- Kate Atkinson"The fantastic is so nicely played against the day-to-day that one feels the strangeness of both . . . A remarkable novel." The New York Times""Under the Skin" tattoos the memory with an unholy trinity of hitch-hikers, the Scottish highlands and the extraterrestrial meat-packing industry. Wonderful, grisly and beyond bonkers." --David Mitchell, author of CLOUD ATLAS "This is a man who could give Conrad a run at writing the perfect sentence." The Guardian" "A wonderful book - painful, lyrical, frightening, brilliant . . . I couldn't put it down." -- Kate Atkinson "The fantastic is so nicely played against the day-to-day that one feels the strangeness of both . . . A remarkable novel." - The New York Times "Under the Skin tattoos the memory with an unholy trinity of hitch-hikers, the Scottish highlands and the extraterrestrial meat-packing industry. Wonderful, grisly and beyond bonkers." --David Mitchell, author of CLOUD ATLAS "This is a man who could give Conrad a run at writing the perfect sentence." - The Guardian "A fascinating book . . . The fantastic is so nicely played against the day-to-day that one feels the strangeness of both. . . . Remarkable."-The New York Times Book Review "A fantastic first novel, a great first novel, so intelligently and beautifully made a book as to deserve a wide readership."-The Boston Book Review "Alternately gorgeous and terrifying, lyrical and brutal, Under the Skin compels and teases. . . . A growing need to turn the pages sneaks up on you. . . . So satisfying and successful."-Newsday