In the Days of Rain: A Daughter, a Father, a Cult

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He has cancer and she is the family member who volunteering to watch over him as he spends time in the hospital and at home slowly dying. My grandmother's gardener a tall, very handsome man, was Exclusive Brethren from a community near the one in the book. Her father, almost drunk on liberty, lost himself, became addicted to gambling, ending up in prison for embezzlement to fund his obsession. Her first novel, Ghostwalk, is published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in the UK, is the launch novel of the new fiction list of Spiegel and Grau in the US (a new division of Random House) and is being translated into 12 different languages including Russian and Chinese. In Stott’s case, her dying father asks for her help in documenting his own role as an influential (and intimidating) preacher in the Exclusive Brethren, the ultra-hardline Christian fundamentalist creationist sect (still active today) into which Stott was born.

but ultimately the darkest truths are teased out, and examined – on one occasion literally, as Doyle asks to look at sliced sections of her father’s autopsied brain. The Roman Catholic mother of a schoolfriend helped her find her bearings in a world with no landmarks. For generations, his family had been members of a Christian sect that had steadily got more fundamentalist.Her family disintegrates in the aftershock – her father into womanising, gambling and, eventually, embezzlement. com Love Holidays Marella Cruises Mercury Holidays Neilson Sandals Travelodge TUI Virgin Atlantic Wendy Wu Tours Wild Frontiers More. He was described as the “Elected Vessel”, and his word held a quasi-papal sway — effectively turning the sect into a cult.

Much of it resonates with me but there were things I didn’t know about the Taylorites that made me incredibly sad, that people can be so blinded to reality and truth because of a man’s ego, because they have faith in that man. Fascinating memoir about the cult that Rebecca Stott grew up in, and her life (and that of her father) after her family leaves.While Stott honours her mother’s strength, it’s her father (complicated, cultural, commanding) who looms large; sometimes overbearingly so. Aged six, Rebecca Stott spent her time listening out for the sound of Satan’s hooves on the paving stones of Brighton. EXCLUSIVEKate is reunited with her three children for the first time in two weeks after leaving hospital. The worthiest Members would all be swept up to Heaven, leaving the more slovenly or wicked Members, and all the rest of the world, to descend into Hell, where weeping and gnashing of teeth would be considered a luxury.