
In the Days of Rain
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Narrated by:
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Rebecca Stott
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By:
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Rebecca Stott
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WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD
In the vein of Bad Blood and Why be Happy when you can be Normal?: an enthralling, at times shocking, and deeply personal family memoir of growing up in, and breaking away from, a fundamentalist Christian cult.
As heard on Jeremey Vine
‘At university when I made new friends and confidantes, I couldn’t explain how I’d become a teenage mother, or shoplifted books for years, or why I was afraid of the dark and had a compulsion to rescue people, without explaining about the Brethren or the God they made for us, and the Rapture they told us was coming. But then I couldn’t really begin to talk about the Brethren without explaining about my father…’
As Rebecca Stott’s father lay dying he begged her to help him write the memoir he had been struggling with for years. He wanted to tell the story of their family, who, for generations had all been members of a fundamentalist Christian sect. Yet, each time he reached a certain point, he became tangled in a thicket of painful memories and could not go on.
The sect were a closed community who believed the world is ruled by Satan: non-sect books were banned, women were made to wear headscarves and those who disobeyed the rules were punished.
Rebecca was born into the sect, yet, as an intelligent, inquiring child she was always asking dangerous questions. She would discover that her father, an influential preacher, had been asking them too, and that the fault-line between faith and doubt had almost engulfed him.
In In the Days of Rain Rebecca gathers the broken threads of her father’s story, and her own, and follows him into the thicket to tell of her family’s experiences within the sect, and the decades-long aftermath of their breaking away.
©2017 Rebecca Stott (P)2017 HarperCollins PublishersCritic reviews
Her book has led to me wanting to know more and I'm now watching various documentaries about this so-called church. After hearing so much about him in the book, it was good to see Rebecca's father speaking in the BBC documentary.
These so called Christians are nothing more than power crazy control freaks and over the years have caused so much heartache and misery to families. It's a form of mental abuse indoctrinating people in the way that they do.
This sect/cult is so unchristian and are completely distorting biblical teachings; they are definitely not walking in the footsteps of Jesus and will one day find themselves hearing Him say, 'I never knew you.'
Very, very interesting book
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Worthy
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Tragic story of Christianity gone wrong
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If you're hesitating to get this - you can do better, choose another book!
Interesting story flatly told
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On more than one occasion I found myself sitting in my car at the end of my journey, determinedly listening in to the end of the chapter, and then listening to just one more.
Rebecca Stott's reading of her own book takes us right back with her, to different times and the very different world she grew up in. And we're blessed that she's chosen to tell her own - and her father's - story.
Captivating
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Interesting story
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I would like to thank the writer for writing it and giving me the courage to get my own story published!
One star less for Overall and Performance because of too much detail of her Father's gambling obsessions!
An enlighteni story for ALL denominations to Hear!
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Excellent book
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It’s a must read for any Christian or anyone who has an interest in cult brain washing
Beautifully written heart breaking and shocking the Author has bravely opened many old wounds to give the reader a complete understanding of how and why cults are still alive and well in our modern world
Read by the Author making it feel so much more personal
I recommend this book to everyone who has any interest in cults and cult behaviour
Shocking
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Breathtaking, haunting, tragic.
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