Faber's pacing here is masterful, with clues precisely dropped and details ominously described. Some of the men are discarded and some are kept in the process the reader learns that Isserley herself is oddly shaped, with breasts too large, legs too short, and scars everywhere. The opening chapters are suffused with an almost palpable sense of dread: Isserley picks up one hitchhiker after another and engages them in conversation, measuring them against a set of criteria of which the reader, as yet, is unaware. A strange woman named Isserley roams the Scottish Highlands in search of juicy, well-muscled hitchhikers in Faber's menacing but unfulfilling debut novel (after Some Rain Must Fall, a collection of short stories).
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