Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing

This is the visceral, thought-provoking and improbably entertaining story of Tim Park's (a.k.a. John MacDowell's) quest to overcome ill health. Bedevilled by a crippling condition which nobody could explain or relieve, he confronts hard truths about the relationship between the mind and the body, the hectic modern world and his life as a writer.