A Novel
'Sometimes I would close my eyes with the tip of the scalpel poised and ready and just feel its progress as it cut through the skin. I'd hold the blade in my hand and press, expectantly and sightlessly through the skin. Feeling the release. Feeling the joy.'
With his PhD recently finished, Matthew Bass is adrift in his work as a prosector in the Department of Anatomy. He is attracted to the sexually well-practised Zoe, a fellow cutter with bizarre religious beliefs. Almost willingly, Matt lets slip his grip on reality until, with Zoe's encouragement, he pushes his newly discovered ideas on life and death to their extreme.
'Cutting Through Skin' is an extraordinary novel in which conflicting systems of faith clash against each other with frightening consequences.
