Ecstasy

A Fictional Encounter Across Time Between Marghanita Laski and Carmen and Harold Laski in 1960s London

What if you could share a pot of tea—and a conversation about truth, reason, and the soul—with a long-departed literary mind?

Ecstasy is a genre-bending tale of imagination, philosophy, and the extraordinary collision between past and present. One foggy afternoon in London, Dr. Harold Laski—a physician, writer, and seeker of truth—and his wife Carmen, an EMT, radiologic technologist, and humanitarian, step through an ordinary door into an impossibly extraordinary moment.

The year? 1960.
The place? Hampstead, a quiet intellectual haven north of the city.
And waiting in the drawing room—Marghanita Laski, celebrated author of Ecstasy, and her husband, the gracious and discerning John Howard.

What begins as an impossible accident becomes a long afternoon of transcendental conversation. Together, these four minds—two from the past, two from the present—explore the mysteries of ecstasy, the nature of belief, the tension between science and soul, and what it means to live a life devoted to reason, wonder, and compassion.

Rich with lyrical dialogue, bursts of dry humor, and startling insight, Ecstasy is a love letter to the intellectual spirit. Fans of Midnight in Paris, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, or philosophical fiction in the spirit of Iris Murdoch, Alan Lightman, and Milan Kundera will find themselves right at home.

Step across time. Enter the conversation. Find the fire.