Is Ed a messed up adrenalin junkie, tripping around the world in a vain attempt to find meaning in life – or is he a changed man?
After an enlightening year of simple living, he is packing all the inner peace and contentment he can carry and travelling from his remote west coast cabin in Ireland to attend a wedding at an exclusive hotel in England.
It could be the perfect opportunity to show off his new-found meditative equipoise – or a stage for yet another audacious adventure…
Matt Padwick spent his twenties travelling the world as an adventure travel guide, and his thirties managing a Tibetan Buddhist meditation centre in south-west Ireland. In this autobiographical novel he explores the insecurity that powered a life of extreme sport and wilderness adventure, and the moments of pure mind and perfect balance that made it addictive. With planet-sized humour and wry vision he scales some of the big questions of his generation.