Zenvoyage: Book Five: Smilo and the Bewildering Jungle

He is told he failed. He was there. He did not fail.A woven village hangs in a jungle of thorns, where everything is learned by touch and nothing by being told. Smilo arrives carrying a long, quiet envy of a clever older brother - and a version of himself that somebody else wrote.What you come away with• Resilience against being told who you are: trusting what your own hands know over what you were told about yourself.• Envy noticed, named privately, and put down. Nobody makes him do it.• That being enough is not a consolation prize.This is the book of the hands. If that door is yours, you will know the knot is wrong before you look.ZENVOYAGE is a meditation book, a quest book and a fantasy book, all three at once: a fantasy series in eight books, for readers from eight to adult. Each book is a complete journey in itself; the eight together make one epic adventure. Nobody in it is fixed - the one who does not fit is simply the hero.Nothing is explained, and nothing happens by wishing. Every marvel in this book is one you could perform. For grown-ups, the practices are named at the back.Three runes glow in every book. There are twenty-four.From a mother of three, whose children are four to twenty.