{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Short-listed for the Whitbread Award, this remarkable book defies categorisation. Under the Skin introduces Isserley, a woman obsessed with picking up male hitchhikers \u2013 so long as they're well-muscled and alone. But why? As the novel unfolds and the reason becomes clear, the reader is drawn inexorably into a completely unexpected and increasingly terrifying world."}, "title": "Under the skin", "covers": [8260688], "subject_places": ["Scotland"], "subjects": ["Literature", "Fiction", "Hitchhiking", "Fiction, suspense", "Scotland, fiction", "Fiction, general", "Fiction, thrillers, suspense"], "key": "/works/OL56004W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL31200A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "latest_revision": 13, "revision": 13, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-15T20:00:51.726213"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-08-07T11:21:36.423212"}}