A wonderful book - painful, lyrical, frightening, brilliant . . . I couldn't put it down
- Kate Atkinson,
One of the best-orchestrated reveals in modern British fiction . . . Michel Faber is a masterly writer
- David Mitchell,
Profound and disturbing . . . Faber writes superbly
* Sunday Times *
This is a man who could give Conrad a run at writing the perfect sentence
* Guardian *
Teases and prods the reader up a plethora of literary blind alleys before hauling them screaming towards its final, thrilling destination
* Daily Telegraph *
Strange, adept, original . . . Would that more first novels were as adventurous or as funky and daring in their conception
* Independent on Sunday *
A brilliantly compressed drama of threat and ambiguity . . . Recalling writers such as Jim Crace and Russell Hoban, <i>Under the Skin</i>, like Faber's short stories, is an extremely assured and imaginative work
* Observer *
Astonishingly, this is Michel Faber's first novel. It is audacious, fascinating, repellent and quite unlike anything I have ever read
* Mail on Sunday *
<i>Under the Skin</i> is a shocking and fantastical take on modern humanity
* The Week *
The fantastic is so nicely played against the day-to-day that one feels the strangeness of both . . . A remarkable novel
* New York Times *