"The fantastic is so nicely played against the day-to-day that one feels the strangeness of both . . . A remarkable novel." --The New York Times "Alternately gorgeous and terrifying, lyrical and brutal, Under the Skin compels and teases . . . Satisfying and successful." --Newsday "A wonderful book - painful, lyrical, frightening, brilliant . . . I couldn't put it down." --Kate Atkinson "Under the Skin tattoos the memory with an unholy trinity of hitch-hikers, the Scottish highlands and the extraterrestrial meat-packing industry. Wonderful, grisly and beyond bonkers." ---David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas "This is a man who could give Conrad a run at writing the perfect sentence." --The Guardian --