“I was not Professor Andrew Martin. That is the first thing I should say. He was just a role. A disguise. Someone I needed to be in order to complete a task.”
This is my second Matt Haig book and I have to say that they just get better and better. This is full of humour, love and maths!
We follow an unnamed alien as he is transported into the body of Andrew Martin, a mathematician who discovers some mathematics solution that the Aliens do not want us to know as they think we can't handle it. And so begins the aliens account of what it is like to be a human with all their eccentricities like wearing clothes and having noses.
The book begins with his distaste of everything Humans do but in the end it turns into a sort of love story as he falls in love, not only with himself but also the family he has been transported into. Matt Haig's humour really shines through as the descriptions of things we do everyday are hilarious through the eyes of the Alien. The way he learns our language by reading Cosmopolitan made me laugh out loud more than once especially as it seemed to be an edition purely of orgasms!! The relationship between Father and Son was also really well written and could have come off as soppy written by anyone else but Matt Haig but this is full of humour and heart break all wrapped into one.
The book is heart warming, thought provoking, funny and sad and one of the best books I have read all year. I beseech you all to run out and grab a copy - you will not be disappointed.
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