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In the Days of Rain: A Daughter, a Father, a Cult
by Rebecca Stott
I nearly DNFed this book at 30% where I got a bit lost in the history of previous generations of the Stott family. However I'm glad I kept going I kept going because this was very very interesting. Not the most enjoyable book that I've read this year but absolutely gripping!
What was shocking to me was that these groups or "cults" of Brethren were living amongst ordinary people in ordinary towns in UK not in the wilds of the American prairies. Doctors and Teachers and neighbours must have known that members were being locked up for weeks at a time or isolated from their family members yet nobody did anything. Our British disinclination to interfere with anyone's religious beliefs was a disaster for people who needed to be rescued.
The relationship between the author and her father was very well told . Despite his role in the Brethren, his neglect of his family, and his gambling addiction, the author felt a deep and abiding bond with him. She spent his last days with him and found the strength to tell his story but also her own.
One of the most poignant parts of the book for me was when Rebecca's family left the Brethren but did not disabuse her of the Brethren beliefs; leaving her to pick her way through a world she had been taught was evil.
I thought this was a fascinating and thought provoking read and a worthy winner of the Costa Prize.
What was shocking to me was that these groups or "cults" of Brethren were living amongst ordinary people in ordinary towns in UK not in the wilds of the American prairies. Doctors and Teachers and neighbours must have known that members were being locked up for weeks at a time or isolated from their family members yet nobody did anything. Our British disinclination to interfere with anyone's religious beliefs was a disaster for people who needed to be rescued.
The relationship between the author and her father was very well told . Despite his role in the Brethren, his neglect of his family, and his gambling addiction, the author felt a deep and abiding bond with him. She spent his last days with him and found the strength to tell his story but also her own.
One of the most poignant parts of the book for me was when Rebecca's family left the Brethren but did not disabuse her of the Brethren beliefs; leaving her to pick her way through a world she had been taught was evil.
I thought this was a fascinating and thought provoking read and a worthy winner of the Costa Prize.