‘Mind blowingly brilliant’ PHILIPPA PERRY
‘Few other writers have such passion for granular detail, intellectual heft and boundless curiosity’ THE TIMES
‘As suspenseful and pacy as an episode of peak-era ER’ GUARDIAN
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE 2020
‘A uniquely strange and wonderful work of literature’ Philip Hoare
‘An exciting new voice’ Mark Cocker, author of Crow Country
The evidence for the existence of the Mind as something distinct from the Brain.
A stimulating inquiry into one of the great religious mysteries – and what theologians, artists, writers, psychologists, priests, historians and people from all religions and walks of life have thought of heaven, where many of us still hope to go one day.
From the author of ‘The Prehistory of Sex’ – a coruscating, insightful history of the human soul.
