The Double Tongue by William Golding Everest was

Everest was

The Mother I Never Knew is a poignant

'poet laureate of the chemical generation'

and the wealthy rub shoulders with the glamorous

the legendary grail of Western explorers and Tibetan seekers alike

The Double Tongue by William Golding Everest wasDid I believe in what I was doing? Or rather, since I was doing nothing, did I believe in what someone, something was doing to me? It begins with the half burnt fish, miraculously restored to life, and the healing of the ill child. Young Arieka is an unloved misfit, but as rumours of her spiritual powers reach the High Priest of Apollo, her life is transformed. She is taken to Delphi to become a Pythia: a mouthpiece for the god Apollo, an oracle