{"product_id":"9780008209209_in-the-days-of-rain-winner-of-the-2017-costa-biography-award","title":"In the Days of Rain: Winner OF THE 2017 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD","description":"\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003eWINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD\u003c\/strong\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003eIn the vein of \u003cem\u003eBad Blood\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWhy be Happy when you can be Normal?\u003c\/em\u003e: an enthralling, at times shocking, and deeply personal family memoir of growing up in, and breaking away from, a fundamentalist Christian cult.\u003c\/strong\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003eAs heard on Jeremey Vine\u003c\/strong\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cem\u003e‘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…’\u003c\/em\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRebecca 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eIn the Days of Rain\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRebecca Stott's best work yet, In the Days of Rain, is a gripping autobiography that explores the confines of a religious sect and the liberation of breaking away. Her memoirs are a beacon for those seeking to understand the complexities of faith and doubt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of Maggie O'Farrell (I Am, I Am, I Am), Rose Tremain (Rosie), Lara Maiklem (Mudlarking), Edmund De Waal (The White Road), and Vaseem Khan (Bad Day at the Vulture Club).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rebecca Stott, Read by Rebecca Stott","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46889182265493,"sku":"9780008209209","price":35.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780008209209_94a53127-59cf-46bd-b1e6-9b59ed61beb1.jpg?v=1776888475","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780008209209_in-the-days-of-rain-winner-of-the-2017-costa-biography-award","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}