A vivid and fascinating memoir of the relationship between Fritz Peters and Gurdjieff from 1932 to 1947, and a sequel to the earlier memoir Boyhood with Gurdjieff. When his mother had a breakdown in the early 1920s, Fritz Peters was taken in by his aunt Margaret Anderson and her partner Jane Heap, editors of The Little Review. When he was 11 they took him to stay with Gurdjieff at his Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man. After his return to America, Peters remained close to Gurdjieff and here we see the man, considered a guru by many, through an adult’s more judgemental, although still admiring, eyes of an adult rather than through the eyes of a child in the previous book. For anyone interested in Gurdjieff’s teaching, this book is a must read, but even for those who aren’t, this is still a really interesting memoir, well-written, full of insight into both himself and his mentor, and a valuable addition to Gurdjieff studies.