About the Author

Tim Lewis is an extremely experienced and accomplished author of 10 books, including history, poetry, philosophy and fiction. He has won prizes and been awarded a number of fellowships and grants for his work, which has reached an international audience. He was born in southern Africa and raised in England, but is now a resident of Charlottesville, Virginia. He has read his work to audiences across America and Europe and his works of history have also won international acclaim. This is his fourth novel. As part of his research, he visited India three times, as well as China, Africa and the Pacific, studied with Hindu and Buddhist masters, tribal medicine men, Native American Indians, and lived for many years in West Yorkshire.