To describe the bizarre scenario behind this novel would make it sound absurd but in Michel Faber's hands it is a compelling and darkly disorientating tale. * * Mail on Sunday * * Edgy, accomplished debut. It is audacious, fascinating, repellent and quite unlike anything I have ever read.
* * Herald * * Astonishingly, this is Michel Faber's first novel. It is the best first novel of the year and a worthy successor to Faber's short stories. Its triumph, however, is that it plays on the mind long after a first reading. Michel Faber's Under the Skin passes this test with ease, or should that be unease? Faber builds a credible thriller on what seems the shakiest of premises. * * The Week * * 'One measure of a book is its stickability, its ability to remain in the mind long after being read. * * Observer * * Under the Skin is a shocking and fantastical take on modern humanity. Recalling writers such as Jim Crace and Russell Hoban, Under the Skin, like Faber's short stories, is an extremely assured and imaginative work. * * Kate Atkinson * * brilliantly compressed drama of threat and ambiguity. * * Guardian * * A wonderful book - painful, lyrical, frightening, brilliant. This is a man who could give Conrad a run at writing the perfect sentence. * * Sunday Times * * The real triumph is Faber's restrained, almost opaque prose.
* * Daily Telegraph * * Profound and disturbing. * * Independent on Sunday * * Tenses and prods the reader up a plethora of literary blind alleys before hauling them screaming towards its final, thrilling destination. Would that more first novels were as adventurous or as funky and daring in their conception.
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