In this cautionary tale for our times, Cosconna - Cosmic Consciousness - newly emboldened by the latest discoveries of astrophysicists, is summoned into existence by the mind of the author. Cosconna returns to Earth in a bid to save her favourite planet. She is angry with God for his incompetence in allowing the Earth to fall into ruin, and she is exasperated with his followers - belligerent war-mongers and avaricious entrepreneurs - who plunder her planet. High on her agenda is to call a halt to men’s habitual mistreatment of her human sisters.

In provocative conversations that roam from the bedroom to the boundaries of the mind, from the latest in current events to the utmost limits of the universe, Cosconna and the author discuss with verve, wit and concern what has gone wrong with the world, and how Cosconna, now a goddess again, intends to put things right.

Ultimately, Cosconna encourages God to vacate Heaven and go on a spiritual retreat. With Him go many of the self-aggrandizing ideas with which patriarchal philosophers, politicians, and theologians have cluttered human heads for the last few thousand years. “We men have run the world and we have made a hash of it”, says Andrew Malleson. “I believe it is now women’s turn”.