Dave's life is ruled by women. There's his wife Marlene, a gorgeously sexy blonde bitch, who communicates with him via Post-it notes. There's Charlotte, his bossy, precocious, six-year-old daughter. And his yoga teacher, Kali, who appears to be a physical incarnation of the Hindu Goddess of Creation & Destruction. Dave's blood thickens with cold whenever she comes close, and that's doing his cholesterol level no good at all. The men in Dave's life are no use either. Max, the boss from hell, is threatening to fire him. Chris the dork has a Star Wars quotation for every occasion. And beer-swilling Mike has nothing to offer but bloke wisdom and dirty jokes. Dave seeks knowledge in a book, and not just any book. The two-thousand year old Yoga Sutras is the Bible of yoga, but the more Dave reads, the less he understands. Being a man in the twenty-first century is no fun at all, but instead of facing up to reality, can Dave invent a new version of it instead? As he tries to escape his earthly bondage, a new and terrifying world of gods, goddesses, angels, demons and witches opens up before him. Is this the liberation from karma that was promised in the Yoga Sutras, or are things taking a major turn for the worse? Can Dave find wisdom, save his marriage, learn to do yoga without falling over, and discover the secret of happiness before everything goes too far?
About the Author: Jackson Radcliffe is the pen name of Steve Morris. He was born in a seaside town in Wales and moved to Oxford, England to study Physics. He has worked at a government research laboratory and as an entrepreneur, starting two successful internet companies. He is interested in many things - science & technology, the environment, travel, visual arts, music (mainly choral music, from Bach to Vaughan Williams to Tavener) and gardening. He is dangerously obsessive about health and fitness and practises Astanga yoga. He thinks that lists of interests and hobbies don't really tell you much about a person's true passions. In his case he is most passionate about ideas, belief systems and abstract concepts like love, beauty, truth and immortality. He still lives in Oxford with his wife, the novelist Margarita Morris, and their two children. His debut novel, The Yoga Sutras, is a philosophical comedy - dark on comedy but light on philosophy! He likes to read both fiction and non-fiction, often reading several books at once. He loves to read stories that dazzle him and show him things that he thought were impossible, and that is the kind of book he aspires to write. Steve suffers from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and some days doesn't manage to do very much. When he can, he works obsessively and takes on too much. He and his wife are currently creating a 1920s-style garden with formal lawns, topiary and a secret garden. This is an unwise project and is not to be recommended. More at - www.blogbloggerbloggest.com