Madness lies in tranquillity

In the Silence Retreat: A wild journey in search of happiness. I had come with a plan - to sit for ten boring days, think about how great I was, reflect on how my relationship with Evelyn had fallen apart, go home, and fix everything - but as the philosopher Mike Tyson once said, "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." Adam and Evelyn are at an impasse, their relationship is slipping away from them. Behind his back, she signs him up for a Vipassana retreat: ten days of silence, ten days of meditation, twelve hours a day. No books, no phone, no internet. What happens in those ten days has the potential to turn his life upside down - if only he can survive it all. In his brutally honest, funny, and touching book, Adam Fletcher takes us on a road trip without travel insurance: into his own inner self, where he ultimately learns to listen to himself - and back out to the people and the love of his life. "And that was just the first day. My body was screaming at me to run away. My mind wholeheartedly agreed. The two made a top-notch team." Adam Fletcher's wild story about his meditation retreat. Ten days of silence, without a phone, without the internet: a self-experiment. Written with British humor and deeply moving. A journey towards greater empathy for others - and for oneself.