Triumph: Life After the Cult by Carolyn Jessop

THE AUTHOR OF INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ESCAPE RETURNS WITH A MOVING AND INSPIRATIONAL TALE OF HER LIFE AFTER SHE HEROICALLY FLED A CULT.

In 2003 Carolyn Jessop, a lifelong member of an extremist Mormon sect, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, gathered up her eight children, including her profoundly disabled four-year-old son, and escaped in the middle of the night to freedom.

Revelling in her new identity as a devoted mum and loving partner, Jessop thought she had put her past firmly behind her. Then, on 3 April 2008, it came roaring back in full view of millions of television viewers. The state of Texas, acting on a tip from a young girl who'd called a hotline alleging abuse, staged a raid on 1,700-acre compound, where jailed 'prophet' Warren Jeffs had relocated his sect's most 'worthy' members. The ranch was being run by Merril Jessop, who was Carolyn's ex-husband and one of the cult's most powerful leaders.

As a mesmerised world watched the crisis unfold, Jessop was drawn into the fray once more. In Triumph, Jessop tells the real and harrowing story behind the raid. An extraordinary woman who has overcome countless tragedies, Jessop shows us how she has triumphed - and how you can too, no matter what the adversity you are facing. 

Genres: Nonfiction - Memoir - Religion - Cults - Polygamy - Cult Classics - Mormonism
Condition: Very good
Published: 2010 by Penguin Group
Pages: 270
ISBN: 9780670918713
Weight: 380g