![]() ![]() The fairy-tale landscape of Scottish mist and sea is a prime setting for strange disappearances and sinister deaths, but it isn’t until near the end of the first chapters of the book that Faber lets slip that Isserley is the witch who fattens up her Hansels for food. ![]() Back at a farm, ‘workers’ abduct the victim into a building. The reader, at first, is led to believe she is looking for sex, but as she combs the motorways for loners, and sedates them with icpathua through needles in the seat, it’s clear something more sinister is happening. Isserley drives through the Highlands looking for muscular jocks hitchhiking the A9 road (p.1). He wrote to heal, through depression and alienation, and dedicates his book to her, “For bringing me back to Earth.” His first novel, written when he was forty years old, Faber had returned from Australia with his wife Eva, to the Scottish Highlands. Under the Skin by Michel Faber is a novel that slipstreams science fiction, but remains in literary realms due to the author’s careful theming and character journey. ![]()
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