Cult Following

My escape and return to the Children of God

Bexy Cameron

• Publisher: Manilla Press
• Year: 2021
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781786580948
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

READERS LOVE CULT FOLLOWING
'The most important memoir of this year'
'One of the most moving, powerful and profound memoirs I have ever read'
'A gripping, moving book from a brilliant, brave writer . . . I devoured this book'
'Truly amazing... couldn't recommend it more'
'Totally blown away... dare I say it's way better than Educated by Tara Westover'

Bexy Cameron was in her late twenties when the dark events of her past finally caught up with her.

Bexy was born into the Children of God, one of the world's most notorious cults. She was 9 years old when she experienced her first exorcism, held in a secret commune deep in the British countryside. At 10, she was placed on Silence Restriction, forced to be silent for a whole year. Even from an early age, she knew what was happening was not right. At the age of 15, she escaped, leaving behind her parents and 11 siblings.

Haunted by her past, Bexy set off on a road trip across America, embedding herself in the underbelly of religious cults, living with children who, like her, are born into the worlds their parents and cult leaders have created for them.

It is a journey of meth cooks, monks, Jesus Freaks, soap-making Armageddonists, surveillance vans and finally, confronting her parents and herself.

'A brave and deeply moving story of fierce spirit' - Dakota Johnson

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Prologue
• 1. Prophets That Prey: 1968
• 2. One Simple Question: 12 Years After
• 3. Can’t Breathe: 7 Years Before
• 4. Mother Truckers and Mamacita: 15 Years After
• 5. Silent Lambs: 5 Years Before
• 6. The Twelve Tribes – Stolen Children: 15 Years After
• 7. A Whisper in the Dark: 5 Years Before
• 8. Tucson and the Cosmos: 15 Years After
• 9. What Do We Want? 4 Years Before
• 10. They’ve Won. She’s Gone: 3 Years Before
• 11. A Hollywood Goodbye: 15 Years After
• 12. In Black and White: 3 Years Before
• 13. Forgive Nothing: 16 Years After
• 14. The Disappearance of Martin and Linda: 1972
• 15. Technicolour Dream Coats and Lord of the Dance
• 16. Sex Cult Girl: 2 Years Before
• 17. The Towers: 18 Years After
• 18. The Exodus: Year 0
• 19. There is No Ranch: 18 Years After
• 20. Everything: 19 Years After
• Acknowledgements