Rebecca Stott.
REBECCA STOTT: BIOGRAPHY OF HER FATHER
IN THE DAYS OF RAIN (2017)
Winner of the 2017 Costa Biography Award.
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On his death bed, Rebecca Stott’s father asked her to write an account of his life - and of his family, which had for several generations been members of a fundamentalist Christian sect. The members of the sect believed that the rest of the world was ruled by Satan. Non-sect books were banned, and rigid rules were enforced, including the requirement for women to wear headscarves. Rebecca Stott managed, with difficulty, to break away from the sect to build a new life. Her book describes her father’s life lived on the fault line between faith and doubt, interweaving it with her own.
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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.
