Craved Sister Wife's unflinching insider testimony on faith's grip? In the Days of Rain reckons with radical devotion next.
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- Rigid sect hierarchies = voyeuristic thrill
- Doubt blooms under patriarchal devotion's weight
- Wit + vulnerability survive spiritual oppression
- Communal hardship without condemning the faith
If Christine Brown Woolley's confessions about polygamous power plays and sanctioned jealousy left you craving more insider testimony from behind the curtain of radical faith, Rebecca Stott delivers with equal unflinching honesty. In the Days of Rain plunges you into the claustrophobic world of the Exclusive Brethren, where devotion and doubt coexist in agonizing tension, and patriarchal structures dictate every breath—no sanitizing, no apologies, just raw reckoning with what it costs to belong.
Stott wields the same coping humor and clear-eyed vulnerability you loved in Sister Wife, turning spiritual claustrophobia into empowerment without condemning the faithful or demanding you torch your own life.
This is what it looks like when insider testimony refuses to look away.
What Readers Are Saying
"Fascinating memoir about the cult that Rebecca Stott grew up in...the audio version is read beautifully by Rebecca, and the writing is great. Highly recommended." — Claire Fuller, Goodreads
"This was a perfect book for my interests...the book conveys a huge amount of information about Brethren and family history but never loses sight of what is most important: what it was actually like to be in a cult and have your life defined by its rules and its paranoia about the outside world." — Rebecca, Goodreads
"It's beautifully written, a thoughtful, curious, compassionate and fascinating account of religious mania... this is what won her the Costa biography prize in 2017; her fiction must be well worth seeking out." — Eleanor, Goodreads
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