For Isaac is both himself and all of us: in our particular capacity to both love and lose what we love and to grieve its absence in absolutely human ways.

Through Isaac’s journey from loss to resurrection we gain the highest recommendation of fiction: to come away learning something new about the world and ourselves. His debut novel, ISAAC AND THE EGG, was an instant Saturday Times bestseller, selling 50,000 copies in its first year of publication. Then, on one of the darkest nights of his life, he stumbles into the woods and finds something else: a two-foot tall egg. It's also about what you'd do if you stumbled into the woods at dawn, found something extraordinary there, and decided to take it home.You're just going to have to find out for yourself, but I can tell you one thing: it's a story for anyone who has ever lost somebody, or has ever lost their way. Told in a quirky way we follow Isaac Addy who's recently been left bereaved by his wife and is struggling to get through his grief. Isaac is twenty-nine years old, and hasn’t had need of a fluffy hot-water bottle for at least twenty of those years. As someone who struggles with grief on a daily basis this book resonated with me on so many levels and at times found myself totally understanding the relationship between Isaac and Egg (the need for comfort/reason to go on).

The egg takes centre stage, beneath an awning of dripping leaves and branches, atop a flattened thicket which could almost be mistaken for a gigantic nest. Huge thanks to NetGalley and the publishers, Headline Audio, for making this audiobook book version of Isaac and the Egg available to me for a fair and honest review. Isaac's emotional distress is expressed through the quiet as he struggles to live through his grie Feeling a oneness with the character works to a disadvantage when the character is struggling to cope and doesn’t want to continue living. The comic first half of the book is littered with little signs like these, and there is indeed a mystery wrapped inside Isaac and Egg’s buddy comedy.Any notion that Palmer’s conversational prose style is straightforwardly “easy” is quickly undercut by the art of his set pieces. Isaac and the Egg, the debut novel by Bobby Palmer, opens with Isaac Addy standing on a bridge at sunrise and considering whether to jump. After all, the rules of pop culture dictate that an egg with a face is no longer something terrifying, but something entirely cute.