![]() ![]() There’s only so much one can say without completely ruining Faber’s concept, so I’m going to keep this all as vague as I possibly can (potentially to the point of being utterly unhelpful) but I would stress that the story seems quite different from that developed for the film version with Scarlett Johansson (which I haven’t seen). The twisted offspring of a sci-fi novel, a murder mystery and an urban legend, Michel Faber’s story plays with expectations in a way that’s fascinating – but deeply disturbing. She’s only really interested in the ones no one would miss. ![]() And she loses interest pretty quickly if it turns out that they’re married, or have a girlfriend. She only stops for the tall, well-muscled ones. She’s always on the lookout for hitchhikers, but she has a few ground rules. ![]() Every day, Isserley spends hours driving along the A9, the arterial road which runs like a backbone through Scotland. ![]()
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