THE FOLLOWERS – REBECCA WAIT

From the acclaimed author of I m Sorry You Feel That Way, Rebecca Wait s The Followers is a tense and shocking novel about family ties and how much we can outrun our past. A great surging shout of a novel – Guardian Profoundly unsettling, brilliantly executed – Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven Judith has been visiting her mother, Stephanie, in prison once a month for the last eight years. But neither of them can bring themselves to talk about what brought them here – or about Nathaniel. When Stephanie first meets him, she is a struggling single mother and Nathaniel is a charismatic outsider, unlike anyone she s ever known. When she decides to join the small religious cult he has founded high on the moors, Stephanie thinks she is doing the best for her daughter: a new home, a new life, a new purpose. As Stephanie slowly surrenders herself to Nathaniel s will, tensions deepen, faith and doubt collide, and a horrifying act of violence changes everything. A page-turning finish – Daily Mail Such a suspenseful and compassionate book . . . I thought it remarkable. – Sunjeev Sahota, author of Ours Are The Streets