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Laura Elizabeth Woollett

    Laura Elizabeth Woollett explore les aspects les plus sombres de la nature humaine et des relations, examinant l'attrait du mal et son impact sur ceux qui sont attirés dans son orbite. Ses recueils d'histoires et ses romans examinent souvent la vie de personnages entrelacés avec des figures infâmes ou radicales. Woollett offre un regard pénétrant sur les motivations et les conséquences qui façonnent le destin de ses personnages. Son écriture est reconnue pour son intensité et sa capacité à dépeindre des scénarios troublants avec une précision glaçante.

    Beautiful Revolutionary
    • Beautiful Revolutionary

      • 416pages
      • 15 heures de lecture

      The thrilling new novel, inspired by the events at Jonestown in the 1970s. It's the summer of 1968, and Evelyn Lynden is a woman at war with herself. Minister's daughter. Atheist. Independent woman. Frustrated wife. Bitch with a bleeding heart. Following her conscientious-objector husband Lenny to the rural Eden of Evergreen Valley, California, Evelyn wants to be happy with their new life. Yet she finds herself disillusioned with Lenny's passive ways -- and anxious for a saviour. Enter the Reverend Jim Jones, the dynamic leader of a new revolutionary church ... Meticulously researched and masterfully written, Beautiful Revolutionaryexplores the allure of the real-life charismatic leader who would destroy so many. It follows Evelyn as she is pulled into Jones's orbit -- an orbit it would prove impossible for her to leave.

      Beautiful Revolutionary2019
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