‘You know those people who always radiate cheerful optimism…? Nauseating aren’t they? I want to become one of those…I want to find out how to live life completely, abundantly, joyfully, stupidly. This is my quest. Enlightenment.’ So proclaims Isabel Losada, Starbucks addict, exercise allergic and self-confessed sceptic as she sets out on the road to enlightenment. Beginning with an Insight seminar where hundred people with name badges learn to ‘share’, Isabel journeyed through a gruelling course of ‘Rolfing’ nude Goddess workshops, a weekend of tantric sex (‘Yes! Yes! Yes!’) and a reincarnation session, not to mention a spot of colonic irrigation. Irreverent yet open-minded, funny and always honest, The Battersea Park Road to Enlightenment is also moving and ultimately illuminating. For anyone who has ever been tempted to dip a toe in the waters of self-discovery, Isabel Losada plunges you straight in.