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Book Synopsis''Searingly honest, funny, self-deprecating, Harding''s narrative seems to rest on the pulse of Ireland'' Irish Times
One day in the summer of 2016, Michael Harding''s wife brought an unusual gift home from Warsaw. All of a sudden, he found himself falling back into the old religious devotions of an earlier time. The meaning he had found through years of engagement with therapy began to dissolve.
Here, in On Tuesdays I''m a Buddhist, Harding examines the search for meaning in life which keeps him fastened to the idea of god.
After many therapy sessions focused on an effort to uncover personal truth, and long solitary months on the road with a one man show, Harding is finally led to an artists'' retreat in the shadow of Skellig Michael.
Mixing stories from the road with dispatches from his Irish Times columns, On Tuesdays I''m a Buddhist is a spell-binding and powerful book about the human condition, the narratives we
Trade Review
Searingly honest, funny, self-deprecating, Harding's narrative seems to rest on the pulse of Ireland * Irish Times on On Tuesdays I'm a Buddhist *
A compelling memoir. Absorbing and graced with a deceptive lightness of touch ... Harding writes like an angel * Sunday Times on Hanging with the Elephant *
Hilarious, and tender, and mad, and harrowing, and wistful, and always beautifully written. A wonderful book * Kevin Barry on Staring at Lakes *
Wonderful ... Like many people who have achieved a great deal, [Harding] cannot recognise his triumphs. This book, like its predecessor, is one of them * John Boyne on Hanging with the Elephant *
A book that champions the kindness (or at least company) of strangers as essential for that elusive state known as happiness * RTE Guide on Talking to Strangers *
