This is a brilliant book. Like Loe’s other ones, this is also about an apocalypse in the mind, body and soul. A busy family father topples from his bike onto the ground which stuns him; as he lies in the grass, concussed and estranged from his hectic everyday existance, he starts unraveling and reaches two conclusions: 1) he dislikes people and 2) he must move to the forest.

So he does move into the forest, away from his wife and two kids, and befriends a deer (after slaughtering its mother). And that’s just the start.

Radiant writing, quite in-tact with Loe’s previous writings so if you’ve read him before I think you’ll fairly soon find your way around this novel as well, and if you haven’t, you’re in for a treat.

A lot of humor, a bit of tragedy and a lot of everyday bliss. Paper-bag-from-American-Beauty-ish. Love it.