<p>You think you&#39;ve got problems.</p><p><br />
My favourite Afghan restaurant closed down. My girlfriend left. A bad-tempered lawyer named Keziah crashed her car into mine. And we couldn&#39;t even <em>die</em> properly.</p><p>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.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Or, we could rot eternally in the yellow sleet outside our cage. Which honestly was tempting. But then a&nbsp;snake with a personality disorder offered us a way out..</p><p><br />
<em>Paradise - a Divine Comedy</em> fearlessly crosses life, death, heavenly dimensions and extreme&nbsp;Afghan cuisine and faces our greatest problem - ourselves.<br />
&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Reviews:</strong><br />
&#39;&#39;Hitchhikers Guide meets Screwtape meets Pilgrims Progress meets the Discworld!&#39; (Phil Grasham)</p><p>&#39;...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)</p><p>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)<br />
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. It&#39;s 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)<br />
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<strong>An interview with Glenn Myers</strong><br />
Q. So what is this book like and what books do you like the most?<br />
A. Off-beat, quirky. British humour I guess. About the afterlife or at least about near-death experiences and the soul.<br />
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Q. Why this subject?<br />
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.<br />
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Q. And you get to ask big questions?<br />
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.<br />
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Q. With two warring characters at the heart?<br />
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 he&#39;s smug, laid-back and bone idle, she&#39;s spiky, focussed and driven. They just don&#39;t get on. There&#39;s no possible world, living or dead, where they could ever get on. Yet they have to work together. And hovering in the background is Jamie&#39;s ex-girlfriend Caroline, who he&#39;s completely failed to love and she&#39;s left him. So they&#39;re 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!<br />
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Q. There&#39;s a lot of food mentioned in the books: Afghan (<em>murtabak</em>), Indian (for example, <em>roti prata</em>), Singaporean Chinese (Hainanese Chicken Rice) and Malay (<em>Mee Goreng, Laksa, Nasi Lemak</em>). Have you eaten all these foods?<br />
A. Yes. It&#39;s important -- vital research.</p>