Under The Skin

About this book

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Isserley spends most of her time driving, watching the road and the men who appear along it. She is especially interested in hitchhikers, but only certain ones: male, well built, and alone.

The pattern is unsettling before it is understood. Each journey carries the quiet pressure of selection, and the ordinary act of offering a lift becomes something stranger, colder, and more difficult to place. Around Isserley, the landscape feels exposed, yet what matters most remains hidden beneath the surface.

Under the Skin is a macabre and unpredictable novel, moving through mystery, horror and speculative unease without settling fully into any one form. It follows a woman whose purpose is never simple, and whose attention to the bodies of strangers opens onto questions of power, appetite and what we choose not to see.

This edition includes an introduction by David Mitchell.