It's an odd premise for a novel, but not all that unusual. Once she's decided a hitchhiker is appropriate prey, she drugs him and takes him to an abattoir hidden beneath a run-down farm, where, in horrifying fashion, he is prepared for shipment to Isserley's
Her intentions for the men she picks up are not sexual - they'reĬulinary. She has been surgically altered to look human, and she comes from a place much farther away than the reader might at first imagine. Wrists too, and big hands.'' The lenses of her glasses are so thick her eyes look ''twice normal size,'' and she is described as ''half 'Baywatch' babe, half little oldĪctually, Isserley is a great deal stranger than that. The first man she picks up is distracted by her perfect breasts, but he also notices her ''big knobbly elbows. The situation is charged with sinister erotic possibility, but there's something not quite right about Isserley. She was looking for big muscles: a hunk on legs.'' Straight past a hitchhiker when she first saw him, to give herself time to size him up. We are in a car with a woman named Isserley as she looks for men: ''Isserley always drove
''Under the Skin'' begins on a road in the Scottish Highlands, in the ''prehistoric stillness'' of early morning. Ichel Faber's first novel is a fascinating book that grows deliberately and progressively peculiar - by the end, you may be genuinely surprisedĪt the journey you've taken: from a small, gray world to the heights of speculative fiction. The antiheroine of this first novel has been surgically altered to appear human.
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