When an enormous, self-help manuscript lands on the desk of Edwin de Value, a stressed-out, over-worked and underpaid editor at New York's Panderic Press, its fate seems destined to be the bin. Edwin's cynicism of self-help books, coupled with his filthy mood that morning, results in his dismissing Tupak's Soiree's 'What I Learned On The Mountain' in the most ignominious fashion: he doesn't even bother to reply.
However, the trouble is that Tupak Soiree's doorstopper is a unique thing: a self-help book that actually works - and before Edwin knows it, a chain of events has been started that will have enormous consequences not just on his own life but for the world at large.
Ferguson's first novel is a masterpiece of comic fiction, a must for anyone who has retched on 'Chicken Soup For The Soul' but deep down felt the need for some spiritual and emotional guidance.
