Isaac and the Egg: the unique, funny and heartbreaking Saturday Times bestseller

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But if that doesn’t happen, and let’s face it, it almost never does; that kind of approach to grief is all about people finding a way they can live with someone else’s grief which is never palatable to be around because it reminds us, and we hate this, that death happens. Dat is het moment waarop Isaac Egg ontmoet, een groot ei met een pluizige witte vacht, een geel gezichtje, grote ogen en lange armpjes.

As readers we are already on board, equally compelled to discover whether even in the darkest of circumstances hope can be found. Strongly recommended to those looking for an unusual story that combines literary fiction, magical realism, and contemporary drama. I also loved the artistic elements throughout where the font changed and found this really added to the reading experience. There’s so much more I want to talk about, but these babblings would be tantamount to huge spoilers. Then, on one of the darkest nights of his life, he stumbles into the woods and finds something else: a two-foot tall egg.

That is until he walks into the woods one day on what is undoubtedly the worst day of a life that doesn’t feel like it’s ever going to get any better, and finds his existential scream of neverending pain answered by something that sounds as lost as he is. Perhaps that’s why they’re everywhere in our culture, from Easter treats to Fabergé luxuries to the faceless face of anonymous Twitter bots.

He thinks of Jurassic Park, of the ripple made by the approaching T-Rex on the surface of a glass of water. Some scenes are so vivid, so well described you feel like a fly on the wall observing the frequent chaos. I can’t take credit for that - it’s all Bobby Palmer and exquisitely encapsulates the book, Isaac and the Egg. Thank you Bobby Palmer for taking me on this fantastic journey and if there’s any justice you have a bestseller on your hands! R. Martin’s dragon-filled moon, the intrigue is endlessly inviting: the bigger the egg, the bigger the question of what’s inside.

Anthropomorphic eggs are cute for exactly that reason – the world might just break them at any moment. and dragging yourself, with the help, love and support of others, to the beginning of the rest of your life. Feeling a oneness with the character works to a disadvantage when the character is struggling to cope and doesn’t want to continue living. Full of rawness and relatablity, I just fell in love with the characters and felt their grief and turmoil through every page.

It’s an approach made to trigger the unheimlich, Freud’s concept of that which is creepy in its almost-but-not-quite-familiarity. Sinds de dood van zijn grote liefde lijkt alles leeg en uitzichtloos en hij probeert zichzelf te verdoven om maar niets te hoeven voelen, hij heeft vrijwel iedereen van zich afgeduwd, verwaarloost zichzelf, is erg depressief en weet niet of hij nog wil leven. It is sort of a feel-good book, but not completely, it is also a very sad book but has many funny moments. It sounded so sad and of course by now I was hooked into the brilliant story telling by Johnny Flynn. His stalagmite hair and stalactite beard make him seem like he’s from a world where the inhabitants are made of stone.

If I had read this, it would have been at least 4 stars, though I am not sure how I would have felt about the barrage of grief in the initial section. If you are an inveterate reader, the odds are good, better than good actually, that fellow readers or close friends (sometimes, happily, they are both) that at some point they will recommend a book to you.