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

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By making grief an adorable sidekick, it becomes something that doesn’t need to be conquered, shrunk and eventually ignored. This is beautifully written, it’s captivating with a delightful blend of humour and the heart breaking. Maybe it’s because Isaacs life is (understandably) so dull and boring (despite living with a fluffy egg alien) that it just didn’t captivate me.

And while an egg might represent fragility, it’s also the very definition of strength: need I remind you that Gaston ate four dozen eggs every morning to help him get large?

Dat is het moment waarop Isaac Egg ontmoet, een groot ei met een pluizige witte vacht, een geel gezichtje, grote ogen en lange armpjes. After all, the rules of pop culture dictate that an egg with a face is no longer something terrifying, but something entirely cute. BOBBY PALMER is an author and journalist whose writing has appeared in GQ, Esquire, Men's Health, Cosmopolitan and more. When you get to the end of the book and things start unfolding so you get the full picture of what happened, I was utterly amazed. courtesy IMP Awards) Creative inspiration can come from all kinds of strange, beautiful and unexpected places – a waterfall at sunset, a colourfully-dressed woman on a train at peak hour or a snippet of history, long forgotten but dredged up to fill a social media post with a fascinating factoid.

Das Buch steckt voller Widersprüche – und so finden sich immer wieder humorvolle Szenen inmitten der trübseligen Stimmung. His eyes used to sparkle, but now they shine only as much as two polished pebbles one would find on a beach.Everybody needs to read Issac, Mary and Egg's story - it'll take a hold of your heart, crack it into a million pieces, then quietly piece it back together again, leaving you nothing short of mesmerised. I love the story line and how it unravels, I love the humour, I love our little egg, yet… I still didn’t love this book.

Hij kan dit bijzondere wezentje niet achterlaten in het bos en neemt hem mee naar huis, waar Egg alles op z’n kop zet, maar waar Egg er ook voor zorgt dat Isaac weer een reden heeft om uit bed te komen.Isaac is twenty-nine years old, and hasn’t had need of a fluffy hot-water bottle for at least twenty of those years.

I can’t take credit for that - it’s all Bobby Palmer and exquisitely encapsulates the book, Isaac and the Egg. I rooted for Isaac from the beginning and keenly felt his despair, but his overall sadness weighed the book down. Thank you Bobby Palmer for taking me on this fantastic journey and if there’s any justice you have a bestseller on your hands! Without giving much away there are some truly heartbreaking moments, funny moments, heartwarming moments, beautiful moments and all the rest.To even give away a hint of the astoundingly imaginative narrative of Isaac and the Egg would be to ruin the journey into its gloriously soul excoriating wonders but suffice to say, Palmer has crafted what feels like almost all the time you’re reading it, like the definitive guide to what grief feels like. R. Martin’s dragon-filled moon, the intrigue is endlessly inviting: the bigger the egg, the bigger the question of what’s inside. This is especially true in the earlier chapters where the unflinching gaze of Issac’s grief is imbued with such vulnerability that our reading becomes almost invasive. The egg sits resplendent in the middle of a clearing, bathed in a heavenly light which seems to defy the darkness of the night that came before it.