Rebecca Stott.
REBECCA STOTT: BIOGRAPHY OF HER FATHER
IN THE DAYS OF RAIN (2017)
Winner of the 2017 Costa Biography Award.
As Rebecca Stott’s father lay dying he begged her to help him write the memoir he had been struggling with for years. He wanted to tell the story of their family, who, for generations had all been members of a fundamentalist Christian sect. Yet, each time he reached a certain point, he became tangled in a thicket of painful memories and could not go on.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rebecca Stott (born 1964) is a British broadcaster and writer who was until her retirement in 2021 Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. In addition to The Days of Rain she has written a biographies of Charles Darwin, Tennyson, and Elizabeth Barrett Browing, as well as two historical novels.
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