In the Days of Rain

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A father daughter story that tells of the the author s experience growing up in the Exclusive Brethren, a fundamentalist, separatist Christian cult, from the author of the national bestseller Ghostwalk.Rebecca Stott was born a fourth generation Brethren and she grew up in England, in the Brighton branch of the Exclusive Brethren cult in the early 1960s Her family dated back to the group s origins in the first half of the nineteenth century, and her father was a high ranking minister However, as an intelligent, inquiring child, Stott was always asking dangerous questions and so, it turns out, was her father, who was also full of doubt When a sex scandal tore the Exclusive Brethren apart in 1970, her father pulled the family out of the cult But its impact on their lives shaped everything before and all that was to come The Iron Room named for the windowless meeting houses made of corrugated iron where the Brethren would worship is Stott s attempt to understand and even forgive her father a brilliant, charismatic, difficult, and at times cruel man who nonetheless inspired his daughter with his love of literature, film, and art and with his passion for life. New Download Kindle ePUB In the Days of Rain author Rebecca Stott – kino-fada.fr DNF This should have been a fabulously interesting book, but was a deadly dull history of the Exclusive Brethren The rest is about her father, his dying, how he d been in prison, her forebears were fisherfolk and very uninteresting stories about their family I really don t need a whole paragraph on how such minutae as how some people dressed up and went outside to have their photo taken and the only impressive one was her father of course as he looked romantic The author can write well, pe DNF This should have been a fabulo...So this book has taken me longer to read than it should have as I started it back in November and then Christmas and job interviews and all sorts happened So started again a few days ago and whizzed through it I thought it was a fascinating evocation of an all too close world we know so little of and also a chance for some of the silenced female stories within male dominated cults to be heard Plus it s a moving tale of a daughter and fathers complex relationship I thought it was fantastic an So this book h...My first year of college was an experience of many new things One of therewarding things I learned that year was that Ingmar Bergman was a great filmmaker I had seen his name in several books I d read and in general buzz you pick up as a youth but I was never in a city where you could find his films This was still the days predating Netflix and of VHS Be Kind Rewind and there was a video shop about two doors down from my dormitory All non new releases were.50 cents so I would My first year of college was an experience of many new things One of therewarding things I learned that year was that Ingmar Bergman was a great filmmaker I had seen his name in several books I d read and in general buzz you pick up as a youth but I was never in a city where you could find his films This was still the days predating Netflix and of VHS Be Kind Rewind and there was a video shop about two doors down from my dormitory All non new releases were.50 cents so I would rent from the Bergma...Full review at TheBibliophage.comAs her father is dying, Rebecca Stott agrees to finish his memoirs In doing so, she tells the story of four generations including her own Starting with her great grandfather, her family had been part of a religious sect called the Brethren While her family is located in England, the Protestant sect had members and various divisions throughout the world.At the center of the story is the decade of the 1960s, which Stott s father dramatically refers to as the Na Full review at TheBibliophage.comAs her father is dying, Rebecca Stott agrees to finish his memoirs In doing so, she t...I must admit I don t understand the hype with this book The premise of life in a cult could have been so interesting , but this was boring and lacked character in the telling I don t feel that I got to...A big thank you to Rebecca Stott, Spiegel and Grau, and Netgalley for the free copy of this book in exchange for an unbiased review Rebecca s family belonged to a fundamentalist Brethren cult in England She was fourth generation It took the strength and willpower of her father to pull the family out, but not before suffering the typical neglect and discrimination associated with belonging to these religious groups Rebecca sets out to tell her father s story in this book his childhood, his m A big thank you to Rebecca Stott, Spiegel and Grau, and Netgalley for the free copy of this book in exchange for an unbiased review Rebecca s family belonged to a fundamentalist Brethren cult in England She was fourth generation It took the strength and willpower of her father to pull the family out, but not be...3.5Rapture, rupture and re entry to the world.Rebecca Stott s memoir about her family s involvement with the Exclusive Brethren is divided into three parts her formative years in the sect, her father s disillusionment when scandal engulfed its leadership and the family s subsequent withdrawal from the group to become part of the normal world The Exclusive Brethren, a subset of the Plymouth Brethren, is a cultish evangelist movement with some 43,000 members worldwide It holds that the devout am Rapture, rupture and re entry to the world.Rebecca Stott s memoir about her family s involvement with the Exclusive Brethren is divided into three parts her formative years in the sect, her father s disillusionment when scandal engulfed its leadership and the family s subsequent withdrawal from the group to become part of the normal world The Exclusive Brethren, a subset of the Plymouth Brethren, is a cultish evangelist movement with some 43,000 members worldwide It holds that the devout amongst their numbers will be chosen to rise up to the heavens in a Rapture, the rest being left to endure the Tribulation in an end of days scenario It shuns any form of contact with the outside world.Ms Stott writes in cool, calm prose If anything, she plays down the impact such an extremist up...I ve always been fascinated by religious cults, particularly since I now believe I had once been introduced to one This book is written by an adult daughter when she comes back home to look after her dying Father, and decides to write about her childhood and her father s involvement in the upper echelon of the Exclusive Brethren It was a harsh and restrictive time...An interesting read about Rebecca Stott, her father, and building a life after leaving the Exclusive Brethren As Stott s father is dying he asks for her help to complete his memoir but he has been stuck on writing about the 1960 s he needs to face what he became while in the all consuming cult the Exclusive Brethren became.Stott was born into the Exclu...

In the Days of Rain
  • English
  • 08 May 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 320 pages
  • 0812989082
  • Rebecca Stott
  • In the Days of Rain