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Amity & Sorrow (Paperback)
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Amity & Sorrow (Paperback)

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Paperback Published: 29/08/2013
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AMITY & SORROW is a story about God, sex, and farming. It's THE LOVELY BONES meets WITNESS: an unforgettable journey into the horrors a true believer can inflict upon his family, and what it is like to live when the end of the world doesn't come. In the wake of a suspicious fire, Amaranth gathers her children and flees from the cult where her children were born and raised. Now she is on the run with no one but her barely-teenage daughters, Amity and Sorrow, neither of whom have ever seen the outside world, to help her. After four days of driving without sleep, Amaranth crashes the car, leaving the family stranded at a gas station, unsure of what to do next. Rescue comes in the unlikely form of a downtrodden farmer, a man who offers sanctuary when the women need it most. AMITY & SORROW is the story of these remarkable women, their lives before the night they fled, and their heartbreaking, hopeful future. Over the course of a season Amaranth will test the limits of her faith, and her daughters will test the limits of her patience. While Amity blossoms in this new world, free from her father's forbidding rules and ecstatic worship, Sorrow will move heaven and earth trying to get back home...And, meanwhile, the outside world hasn't forgotten about the fire on the compound.

Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780755394388

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“A great read”

It cartainly was a fast-moving read; I resented going to bed or looking at the clock in the morning telling me it was time to put the book down and get on with other things.
It is a gripping story and for some of us... More

Hardback edition
19th March 2013
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Leilah Skelton at Doncaster

“A switchback ride!”

A novel that grabs the reader by the wrist and takes them on a switchback ride between two very different ways of living :- That of scratching a living by raising crops out of dust-dirt fields; and that of raising... More

Hardback edition
3rd April 2013
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“Good book, a 3.5”

A hard book to describe, the characters while not entirely sympathetic, were compelling to read about and see where the story takes them. Unfortunately I couldn't warm to the character of Sorrow but I found I... More

Hardback edition
28th March 2013
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