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Sins of My Father: A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling
Lily Dunn
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'An extraordinary story' CLOVER STROUD
'Astonishing and valuable' THE SPECTATOR
'Beautifully written' DAILY MAIL
'Intensely gripping . . . as brutal and funny as it is raw and candid' VIV GROSKOP
'As vivid an account of addiction as I can remember reading' GUARDIAN
'Will resonate with anyone who has loved a difficult parent and spent a lifetime trying to work them out' ALI MILLAR
When Lily Dunn was six years old, her father left for India to join the cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. She grew up enthralled by the myth of him - a brilliant, charismatic writer and entrepreneur who would appear with gifts from faraway places. Yet he was also a compulsive liar whose pursuit of transcendence took him from sex addiction, via the Rajneesh cult, to a relentless chase of money, which ended in ruin and finally addiction to alcohol and prescription drugs. A daughter's investigation into a father who was always out of reach, Sins of My Father is a gripping detective story that asks how much we can forgive of those we love.
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Sins of My Father reminded me of Laura Cummings' gripping memoir, On Chapel Sands . . . there is beauty in its crisp, cold clarity . . . as vivid an account of addiction as I can remember reading - GUARDIANAn extraordinary story. SINS OF MY FATHER is both page-turning and lyrical, an inspiration . . . one of the best memoirs I've read in a long timeSuperb . . . a terrific read, beautifully written and expertly structured - DAILY MAIL, Book of the WeekConsiderable courage is needed to return to the stark, bright light of trauma in this shirking-nothing way; but writing of this intensity has delivered an astonishing and valuable memoir - THE SPECTATOR
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