The Last Days

Writing about personal trauma is hard. I don't just mean that it's hard in the sense that it forces you to relive painful moments in excruciating detail. I mean, it's hard to channel one's trauma into something that is meaningful and relevant for human beings in general, something that can genuinely......more

This was such a fantastic and candidly open memoir, where the author did not hold back in showing how truly toxic the Jehovah's Witness community can be. Growing up as a Jehovah's Witness and leaving the community when I was 14, I have struggled to find memoirs, if any, that portray the inside of th......more

Wow. What a tremendous memoir. I’ll preface this review by saying my thoughts on JW as a religious organisation are not clear cut. I have friends who are JW and are really happy, my friend doesn’t appear oppressed by her husband and her children are bright, happy and just regular kids. As a CofE Chr......more

As an ex-Witness I found this book about being a Jehovah’s Witness, and then leaving, incredibly moving. I sometimes think books like this can’t be fully appreciated by anyone else other than ex-Witnesses, seeing as it’s such a peculiarly cultural thing. Their whole belief system is strange, the way......more