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

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While Stott honours her mother’s strength, it’s her father (complicated, cultural, commanding) who looms large; sometimes overbearingly so. It’s a testament to Stott’s fearless, honest account that the reader emerges not only with a rare insight into the Brethren’s secret world, but also with a sense of what it took for her, not only to survive, but to emerge, creative and individualistic, from the kind of childhood that could destroy anybody. Sometimes this book becomes confusing, unresolved, but ultimately the darkest truths are teased out and examined Mad Men star Alison Brie has her Baywatch moment in a red bikini on Australia's Gold Coast while in town filming Apples Never Fall It comes as many parts of southern Europe continue to bake in hot weather, as temperatures reached a dangerous 45C in some regions on the Mediterranean in the last few days. Jennifer Lawrence exudes wintertime chic in beige scarf and leather gloves as she enjoys NYC stroll with son Cy, one, after Thanksgiving Jodie Foster, 61, and her son Kit, 22, enjoy RARE outing together as they bundle up in chic winter fashions for chilly Big Apple stroll

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Rebecca Stott grew up in in Brighton, England, as a fourth-generation member of the Exclusive Brethren, a cult that believed the world is ruled by Satan. In this closed community, books that didn't conform to the sect's rules were banned, women were subservient to men and were made to dress modestly and cover their heads, and those who disobeyed the rules were punished and shamed. Yet Rebecca's father, Roger Stott, a high-ranking Brethren minister, was a man of contradictions: he preached that the Brethren should shun the outside world, yet he kept a radio in the trunk of his car and hid copies of Yeats and Shakespeare behind the Brethren ministries. Years later, when the Stotts broke with the Brethren after a scandal involving the cult's leader, Roger became an actor, filmmaker, and compulsive gambler who left the family penniless and ended up in jail. The men were the all important people in the Brethren, women and children were second best. The women were not allowed to give their opinions, and had to wear headscarves and dress plainly. No fashionable wear was allowed. Televisions, radios and going to the cinema, were also banned. The weather will then turn "widely unsettled" over the weekend with outbreaks of rain accompanied by stronger winds.

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The much-loved labrador that sniffed out her owner's breast cancer, saving her life and inspiring a new charity that's gone on to save countless more By rights Rebecca Stott's memoir ought to be a horror story. But while the historian in her is merciless in exposing cruelties and corruption, Rebecca the child also lights up the book, so passionate and imaginative that it helps explain how she survived, and – even more miraculous – found the compassion and understanding to do justice to the story of her father and the painful family life he created.’ - Sarah Dunant, author of The Birth of Venus Sir Rod Stewart flashes the middle finger at the Celtic v Motherwell football match after he is booed byThe Green Brigade EMILY PRESCOTT: Cressida's chilled to the Bonas... Prince Harry's ex-girlfriend shows she's still a fan of real shops Megan Thee Stallion reveals she will be 'stingy' when it comes to sex as the rapper is 'turning over a new leaf' in dating life: 'I'm not a freak anymore'