Isaac and the Egg

Isaac Addy is twenty-nine and utterly unmoored. His wife Mary is dead, his house has fallen into squalor, and he has stopped seeing a way forward. Then, in the woods on the worst morning of his life, he finds something impossible: a huge egg. He takes it home, and what emerges — a strange creature Isaac simply calls Egg — refuses to leave.

Egg can't speak Isaac's language, not at first, but it can make breakfast, make a mess, and, somehow, make Isaac keep going. As the two form an odd, funny, tender friendship, Egg becomes exactly what Isaac needs to begin facing the enormity of his loss and the question of how to live with it.

Bobby Palmer's debut, Isaac and the Egg, is a modern fairy tale in the truest sense — using magical realism, dark humour, and real emotional weight to explore grief, depression, and the slow, strange work of survival.