Home Book Info Illustrations Download the 1st 8 Chapters Author Interview     Andy Miles Born 15th January 1949. He spent his early life in Malvern in Worcestershire, where his father worked as an M.O.D. Scientist. As a child he roamed the same hills that inspired Elgar to write many of his musical masterpieces, and also frequented the same theatre for which Bernard Shaw wrote plays. His first ambition was to become an artist, and he gained his degree in fine art, at Stourbridge and Leicester. His talents are well represented in this book as the front cover design, and all the fine pencil illustrations in the book are all his original work. Writing has always been part of his repertoire, with an early interest in oriental poetry, but this is his first novel, written only last year. He has remained living in Leicester, since leaving college, and the setting for the story, where it takes place on Earth, is a sort of parallel Leicester. Leicester people will certainly recognise places and institutions referred to, though the names have been subtly altered. Andy Miles is a fully qualified member of the prestigious Hypnotherapy Society, an exponent of Karate, and a life-long student of comparative religion, spirituality and meditation, so all the references to these areas in the book are from his own extensive knowledge and experience.