Amity & Sorrow

Paperback Published on: 29/08/2013
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Bookseller Reviews

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Amity & Sorrow
A really interesting novel.
I loved this book because i had no idea where it was going. Starting with a family running (not all of them willingly)from a cult of many wives, this tale ... READ MORE
Grace At Birmingham
Amity & Sorrow
Like Witness meets Land of Decoration.
Amaranth runs away from a cult with her two daughters and falls upon the mercy of a farmer, when she crashes her car. Amaranth is wary, Amity, curious and ... READ MORE
Melanie Jones at Brentford
Amity & Sorrow
Amity & Sorrow
After reading an intriguing preview of 'Amity and Sorrow' at work (which included the hashtags #god, #sex and #farming) I was really happy to finally get a... READ MORE
Amy at Guildford
Amity & Sorrow
dark
Quite a dark book set in America around the theme of polygamy. I enjoyed this book. This book is set around a mother and her two daughter's Amity and Sorro... READ MORE
suzanne fareham

Synopsis

AMITY & SORROW is a story about God, sex, and farming. It's THE LOVELY BONES meets WITNESS: an unforgettable journey into the horrors a true believer can inflict upon his family, and what it is like to live when the end of the world doesn't come.

In the wake of a suspicious fire, Amaranth gathers her children and flees from the cult where her children were born and raised. Now she is on the run with no one but her barely-teenage daughters, Amity and Sorrow, neither of whom have ever seen the outside world, to help her. After four days of driving without sleep, Amaranth crashes the car, leaving the family stranded at a gas station, unsure of what to do next. Rescue comes in the unlikely form of a downtrodden farmer, a man who offers sanctuary when the women need it most.

AMITY & SORROW is the story of these remarkable women, their lives before the night they fled, and their heartbreaking, hopeful future. Over the course of a season Amaranth will test the limits of her faith, and her daughters will test the limits of her patience. While Amity blossoms in this new world, free from her father's forbidding rules and ecstatic worship, Sorrow will move heaven and earth trying to get back home... And, meanwhile, the outside world hasn't forgotten about the fire on the compound.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
  • ISBN: 9780755394388
  • Number of pages: 352
  • Dimensions: 199 x 135 x 22 mm
  • Weight: 238g
  • Languages: English

Customer Reviews

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Amity & Sorrow
A switchback ride!
A novel that grabs the reader by the wrist and takes them on a switchback ride between two very different ways of living :- That of scratching a living by ... READ MORE
Leilah at Doncaster
Amity & Sorrow
A good read
Peggy Riley’s style in this beautifully written, unsettling novel took me a little while to get used to. The story jumps about a lot - from flashbacks of t... READ MORE
andrews
Amity & Sorrow
On the fence
Amaranth, Amy, is the mother of Amity & Sorrow all of whom have just ran from their home. A fundamentalist cult, shared with 50 other wives in a polygamy r... READ MORE
SMBSLT
Amity & Sorrow
Great book
This is a great book, very gripping and hard to put down. The storyline is unique and the characters are very interesting. I would recommend this book to a... READ MORE
Elizabeth Johnson
Amity & Sorrow
Good book, a 3.5
A hard book to describe, the characters while not entirely sympathetic, were compelling to read about and see where the story takes them. Unfortunately I c... READ MORE
Antha
Amity & Sorrow
Disappointing ending
I really enjoyed the first half of this book and felt like it was heading towards an interesting conclusion but it seemed to tail off a bit and I found I w... READ MORE
PurpleSkull
Amity & Sorrow
A great read
It cartainly was a fast-moving read; I resented going to bed or looking at the clock in the morning telling me it was time to put the book down and get on ... READ MORE
Hela
Amity & Sorrow
Enlightening and frightening
How Peggy Riley can write such a compelling and insightful book without having been involved in a cult herself I do not know. She has obviously carried out... READ MORE
sharon237
Amity & Sorrow
Intelligent writing
As soon as you open the first chapter you simply dive straight into the crux of the story. Two very different sisters, Amity & Sorrow, and their mother who... READ MORE
LeenaK
Amity & Sorrow
Accomplished storytelling
I’d heard a lot of buzz about this book so was very excited when Waterstones sent me a review copy – and I was not disappointed. The opening pages plunge ... READ MORE
Becca Allen
Amity & Sorrow
Very good book, but has it's problems
As the title says, it's a very good read, if yet very difficult to get into parts of the book to understand it fully. Amity, Sorrow and Amy escape from a c... READ MORE
Tracie
Amity & Sorrow
Gripping Tale
This is a harrowing tale of good turning to evil. A mother and her two young daughters are fleeing from a cult run by a man who has been “rescuing” hopeles... READ MORE
Revel
Amity & Sorrow
Intriguing and often difficult
Although Amity & Sorrow is a fairly short novel at just 284 pages in the advance paperback edition, it is an intense and at times very difficult story to r... READ MORE
Anne Cater
Amity & Sorrow
Good, not great.
I was really looking forward to reading this - it's a wonderful coming of age book, bringing up difficult topics and the shattered relationship between rel... READ MORE
Vixi