The Battersea Park Road to Enlightenment is a book about Happiness. There is a belief in the West that we can't be happy all the time. Well, we can't avoid bad things happening to us but it seems to me that there are people that seem to be supreme examples of how to live. Helen Keller, Christopher Reeve, Nelson Mandela, pick your own favourites. People who seem to demonstrate that no matter what happens it is possible to be absurdly positive. Not falsely so - genuinely, honestly happy. No matter what.

So in 'The Battersea Park Road to Enlightenment' I went and tried out all the weird and wonderful courses out there that claim to be able to help us become more rounded, more well adjusted, better, kinder people. And I wrote about what I learned. The book is full of humour - but it's not humour at the expense of the practitioners but at the expense of the narrator. An absurd woman who always thinks that she understands what a discipline is or what a course will offer before trying it.

The book is intended for anyone having a hard time. Man or woman, with their life or their relationships. The book has two layers to it. On the surface it is pure humour - a book about me and the crazy things that I've done. But it's also for the reader. I've done courses and slipped the best of what I've learned into the narrative. A ridiculous American phrase like 'Use everything for your learning, upliftement and growth' for example, is also, in my experience, a very useful approach to life.