Under the Skin

Paperback original. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 296. Glossy pictorial wraps. With Kate Atkinson blurb to front cover. In acetate dustjacket, as issued.

Author's debut novel. Shortlisted for the 2000 Whitbread First Novel award. A female driver scours the Scottish countryside on the lookout for well-built male hitch-hikers to pick up. A haunting tale of an alien species harvesting humans for meat, in the sci-fi tradition of H.G. Wells's classic, The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896). Brought to the big screen in 2013 by director Jonathan Glazer in an adaptation starring Scarlett Johansson.

"[A] bewitching, deeply strange cruise through a timeless Highland landscape beset by mutilation, alienation, hitchhikers, commerce and bovine malfeasance, it teases and prods the reader up a plethora of literary blind alleys before hauling them screaming towards its final, thrilling destination." –Daily Telegraph