Paradise: A Divine Comedy: 1 (Jamie's Myth)

You think youve got problems. My favourite Afghan restaurant closed down. My girlfriend left. A bad-tempered lawyer named Keziah crashed her car into mine. And we couldnt even die properly.The afterlife turned out to be a cage in the heavens where we lived with all our memories and where evil spirits wanted us to build a perfect life together. Then they could use us to market-test new products. Or we could rot eternally in the yellow sleet outside our cage. Which honestly was tempting. But then a snake with a personality disorder offered us a way out.. Paradise - a Divine Comedy fearlessly crosses life death heavenly dimensions and extreme Afghan cuisine and faces our greatest problem - ourselves. Reviews: Hitchhikers Guide meets Screwtape meets Pilgrims Progress meets the Discworld! (Phil Grasham)...absolutely loved it. A hysterical surrealist take on what is out there after life on earth or next to life on earth or simultaneous with life on earth or whatever. A story of Gods in kilts crystal clear memories and walls made of our pixelated fears. Delightful. (Jeannette M Goodreads.com)Sometimes you want to hit the main character on the back of the head and tell him to stop being a wuss but how would you react if you had to build a paradise controlled by some used-car-salesman-style gods? If you like quirky and surreal stories about the afterlife then I would highly recommend Paradise. (Katie Webb Goodreads.com) What a great book! Loved the characters the creativity the dialogue the imaginative idea of evil spirits keeping humans as pets .... a delightfully comic but definitely insightful look into the human psyche and soul. Its a mark of a good book (for me at least) when I look forward to picking it up again to read and am slow to put it down. I loved every aspect of it. (Susan Sutton author) An interview with Glenn Myers Q. So what is this book like and what books do you like the most? A. Off-beat quirky. British humour I guess. About the afterlife or at least about near-death experiences and the soul. Q. Why this subject? A. What are we like on the inside? If your soul was like a landscape what would it look like? How would it change? What would be attacking it or wearing it down? I thought it would be a lot of fun to picture that. Q. And you get to ask big questions? A. I think the best comedy does. Life death love redemption: all those but handled lightly. I see comic fiction like a ridge walk on a mountain range -- scary drops each side but a carefree stroll on the top. Q. With two warring characters at the heart? A. Three actually. The main protagonist Jamie is at war with Keziah the girl who crashed into him and so sent them both to the afterlife. If hes smug laid-back and bone idle shes spiky focussed and driven. They just dont get on. Theres no possible world living or dead where they could ever get on. Yet they have to work together. And hovering in the background is Jamies ex-girlfriend Caroline who hes completely failed to love and shes left him. So theyre all lost souls. And of course the stress of being dead of your soul exposed and of being experimented on by evil spirits. Such wonderful fun to write! Q. Theres a lot of food mentioned in the books: Afghan (murtabak) Indian (for example roti prata) Singaporean Chinese (Hainanese Chicken Rice) and Malay (Mee Goreng Laksa Nasi Lemak). Have you eaten all these foods? A. Yes. Its important -- vital research.