Sins of My Father: A Guardian Book of the Year 2022 - A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling - Paperback

by Lily Dunn (Author)

'An extraordinary story' CLOVER STROUD
'Astonishing and valuable' THE SPECTATOR
'Beautifully written' DAILY MAIL
'Intensely gripping . . . as brutal and funny as it is raw and candid' VIV GROSKOP
'As vivid an account of addiction as I can remember reading' GUARDIAN
'Will resonate with anyone who has loved a difficult parent and spent a lifetime trying to work them out' ALI MILLAR

When Lily Dunn was six years old, her father left for India to join the cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. She grew up enthralled by the myth of him - a brilliant, charismatic writer and entrepreneur who would appear with gifts from faraway places. Yet he was also a compulsive liar whose pursuit of transcendence took him from sex addiction, via the Rajneesh cult, to a relentless chase of money, which ended in ruin and finally addiction to alcohol and prescription drugs. A daughter's investigation into a father who was always out of reach, Sins of My Father is a gripping detective story that asks how much we can forgive of those we love.

Author Biography

Lily Dunn is a writer, teacher and lecturer in creative writing and narrative nonfiction at Bath Spa University. She is the author of one novel, SHADOWING THE SUN, and co-editor with Zoe Gilbert of A WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE, an anthology of recovery stories.