Isabelle the Navigator

Like many, I read Isabelle the Navigator shortly after reading Candy. And as with Candy, the pleasure is in the prose itself.

This was a truly poetic piece, I felt like I was reading a piece of poetic prose. This book could easily be in a philosophy section as well as fiction, however, he discovers the inner core of human relationships with this novel.

After coming across Luke Davies first novel, Candy, I couldn't wait for the appearance of his next book. While Isabelle The Navigator lacks the powerfully compulsive magnetism of Candy, it is still nonetheless a work of art, displaying Davies's wonderfully poetic prose as he dives into the depths of grief.