A memoir of a young boy's unusual travels with his mother. The author recreates his boyhood experiences, relating how he and his mother travelled throughout the United States, and tracing his experiences and changes from young boy to manhood against the background of a violent and wildly optimistic America.

At the beginning of the 20th century psychologists disovered ways and means to measure intelligence that developed into an obsession with IQ. In the mid 1990's, Daniel Goleman popularized research into emotional intelligence, EQ, pointing out that EQ is a basic requirement for the appropriate use of IQ. In this century, there is enough collective evidence from psychology, neurology, anthropology and cognitive science to show us that there is a third Q, SQ or Spiritual Intelligence.

A study of the mistress, from Lillie Langtry to Monica Lewinsky, Madame de Pompadour to George Eliot. It examines how the roles of wife and mistress come about, how each may threaten the other, or how they may co-exist.

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2017
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017
SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW STATESMAN, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, TIME AND THE BBC

'Unsettling and compulsive, Demi-Gods is a fearless novel and Eliza Robertson a daring new novelist' John Boyne, author of All the Invisible Furies