Finding The Driving Spirit

Simon Day

Paperback, 300 pages, ISBN: 978-1-905552-00-9

Finding the driving spirit…that is the fuel that propels everyone through life. This unique book shines like a set of halogen headlamps on the human soul. With honesty and vulnerability, the author offers us a journey that is both earthy and spiritual. Is heaven to be found in the character of a classic car, illuminated by a faulty interior light? Is there life beyond the breaker’s yard?

European sanitation, eccentric teachers, exquisite cars with symphonic engines, thunderous motorcycles, the humble 2CV, quirky characters, rogue motor traders, crazy songs, Jumbo Whiffy (the vicar’s godson), the twitcher and the bird with the saucy name, the physicist pigeon, life in the 70s, spiritual insights, deep questions: there’s both the serious and the ridiculous in here. Anyone who enjoys a humorous story should find plenty with which to amuse themselves.