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Bobby Palmer
Bobby Palmer is a journalist and the author of Isaac and the Egg. He writes contemporary fiction that blends the ordinary with the strange to tell stories about grief and connection.
Isaac and the Egg
Synopsis
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.
Genres
Characters
Isaac AddyProtagonist
A grieving young widower who finds the egg.
Frequently asked questions
What inspired the author to include such an unusual character as the Egg?
The author was influenced by works like Max Porter's Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Patrick Ness' A Monster Calls, which use monstrous figures to represent grief. He wanted to create a chaotic and comedic creature that would be impossible for the protagonist to ignore, serving as a metaphor for the process of nurturing one's own healing.
Is the Egg meant to be interpreted as a literal creature or a hallucination?
The author intentionally leaves the nature of the Egg open to reader interpretation. Whether the Egg is a physical reality or a manifestation of the protagonist's traumatized mind is designed to reflect the personal experiences and perspectives that each reader brings to the story.