“Shared suffering, she’d found, was no guarantee of intimacy.”
Michel Faber book Under the Skin
Source: Under the Skin
Quotes from bookUnder the Skin
Under the Skin is a 2000 novel by Michel Faber. Set in northern Scotland, it traces an extraterrestrial who, manifesting in human form, drives around the Scottish countryside picking up male hitchhikers whom she drugs and delivers to her home planet. The novel, which was Faber's debut, was shortlisted for the 2000 Whitbread Award. It was later adapted into a feature film by Jonathan Glazer.
