Keith is a semi-retired sommelier who has written extensively on the relationships between wine, culture, and spirituality. In The Buddha in Our Bellies, he takes on his own experience of compromised immunity leading to compromised identity.

After more than thirty years in the dental industry, Yoshiko turned to her passion for gardening, grandsons, and animals. She chronicles her family's extraordinary journey from Stalin's forced labour camps and post-war starvation to lives of joy and purpose.

Paralleling Keith and Yoshiko's stories are speculations about the life of Siddhartha, from India twenty-five centuries past. His restless discontent drove him to find a solution to the problem of suffering and he became known as the Buddha. Rather than focus on his founding a world religion or his later deification, The Buddha in Our Bellies finds the man beneath the myths. In particular, his relationship with three extraordinary women is re-imagined.