A Bad Beginning and the Path to Islam by Gai Eaton

Gai Eaton is the author of three major works on Islam which have
had a profound influence on young Muslims in the West,
offering them an alternative both to extremism and to the narrow
perspective of immigrant parents. Now, as an octogenarian, he looks
back on his troubled early life and on the circumstances which led him,
at the age of 30, to Islam. This autobiography is the story of a born
sceptic's search for faith while preoccupied with questions of race and
class, sex and money. After a strange childhood completely isolated
from other children, he was educated at Charterhouse and Cambridge
to become, succesively, an actor, a teacher and journalist in Jamaica
where he was involved in the island's politics, a diplomat, a writer
and finally, consultant to the leading Islamic institution in Britain.

Classification: Autobigraphy
Size: 235 x 156mm
Pages: 368
Binding: cloth/paper
ISBN: 978-1-901383-32-4/978-1-901383-33-1
Price: £29.95 / £14.95
Publication date: 15 February 2010