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The Abode of Love: A Memoir
The Abode of Love A Memoir
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Within a few weeks of arriving to live in the Agapemone -- a word my sisters loftily informed me meant 'abode of love' in Greek -- I had divined the way my strange new home worked, in the way that young children do so instinctively. I had like it immediately: its vast, mostly unkempt gardens and its chapel, known simply as E... more »
When Kate Barlow left postwar London to live with her fierce grandmother in a rambling gothic mansion in the countryside, she entered a mysterious world where time seemed to have stopped still in the 1900s -- and nothing was quite what it seemed.
Six-year-old Kitty reveled in the sudden freedom of a giant outdoor playground and the company of an array of eccentric old women who inched their way around dressed in fashions she had only ever seen in history books.
Protected by a wall of secrecy, it would be years before she learned the truth: that what her grandmother resided over was the remains of a bizarre religious cult, beset by local rumors of sexual scandals, 'spiritual brides' and peculiar rituals. Led by her grandfather, the Abode of Love had gained worldwide notoriety when he claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ.
Interweaving the moving story of a young woman's coming of age with the remarkable tale of a dangerously charismatic man and his legacy, The Abode of Love is proof that truth is indeed stranger than fiction.
Author:
Within a few weeks of arriving to live in the Agapemone -- a word my sisters loftily informed me meant 'abode of love' in Greek -- I had divined the way my strange new home worked, in the way that young children do so instinctively. I had like it immediately: its vast, mostly unkempt gardens and its chapel, known simply as E... more »
When Kate Barlow left postwar London to live with her fierce grandmother in a rambling gothic mansion in the countryside, she entered a mysterious world where time seemed to have stopped still in the 1900s -- and nothing was quite what it seemed.
Six-year-old Kitty reveled in the sudden freedom of a giant outdoor playground and the company of an array of eccentric old women who inched their way around dressed in fashions she had only ever seen in history books.
Protected by a wall of secrecy, it would be years before she learned the truth: that what her grandmother resided over was the remains of a bizarre religious cult, beset by local rumors of sexual scandals, 'spiritual brides' and peculiar rituals. Led by her grandfather, the Abode of Love had gained worldwide notoriety when he claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ.
Interweaving the moving story of a young woman's coming of age with the remarkable tale of a dangerously charismatic man and his legacy, The Abode of Love is proof that truth is indeed stranger than fiction.
ISBN-13: 9781863255691
ISBN-10: 1863255699
Publication Date: 1/1/2006
Pages: 281
Rating: 2
ISBN-10: 1863255699
Publication Date: 1/1/2006
Pages: 281
Rating: 2
3.3 stars, based on 2 ratings
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