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Wed March 16th 7pm: Sins of My Father EVENT + BOOK

Wed March 16th 7pm: Sins of My Father EVENT + BOOK

£16.99Price

Wednesday March 16: Sins Of My Father Live In Shop! Lily Dunn In Conversation 7-8pm

 

Lily Dunn runs the London Lit Lab and taught Life Writing for Ink@84. She'll be in discussion with Ink@84 co-owner Betsy Tobin.


ENTRY FREE WITH PRE-ORDER.
Book online or in shop!

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When Lily Dunn was just six years old, her father left the family home to follow his guru to India, trading domestic life for clothes dyed in oranges and reds and the promise of enlightenment with the cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. Since then he has been a mystery to her. She grew up enthralled by the image of him; effervescent, ambitious and elusive, a writer, publisher and entrepreneur, a man who would appear with gifts from faraway places, and with whom she spent the long, hot summers of her teenage years in Italy, in the company of his wild and wealthy friends.

Yet he was also a compulsive liar, a delinquent, a man who abandoned his responsibilities in a pursuit of transcendence that 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 detective story that charts two colliding narratives, Sins of My Father is a daughter's attempt to unravel the mysteries of a father who believed himself to be beyond reproach. A dazzling work of literary memoir, it asks how deep legacies of shame and trauma run, and if we can reconcile unconditional love with irreparable damage.

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