'Every bit as gripping as it is horrifying' Ian Rankin'So striking... like seeing our last few years through a distorted fever-dream' Lucy Caldwell'A bleeding, sweating story' Guardian'A bracingly original tale of lust and malice' Rob Doyle'A work of exquisite strangeness, unsettling and arresting' Wendy Erskine'An almost impossibly elegant evocation...

A Scotsman Book to Watch for 2022It is 1982 and in the Kingdom Hall we are Jehovah's Witnesses. The state of the world shows us the end is close, and Satan is like a roaring lion, seeking to devour us.Ali Millar is waiting for Armageddon. Born into the Jehovah's Witnesses in a town in the Scottish Borders, her childhood revolves around regular meetings in the Kingdom Hall, where she is haunted by vivid images of the Second Coming, her mind...

'Every bit as gripping as it is horrifying' Ian Rankin'So striking... like seeing our last few years through a distorted fever-dream' Lucy Caldwell'A bleeding, sweating story' Guardian'A bracingly original tale of lust and malice' Rob Doyle'A work of exquisite strangeness, unsettling and arresting' Wendy Erskine'An almost impossibly elegant evocation...

Brought to you by Penguin.A Scotsman Book to Watch for 2022It is 1982 and in the Kingdom Hall we are Jehovah's Witnesses. The state of the world shows us the end is close, and Satan is like a roaring lion, seeking to devour us.Ali Millar is waiting for Armageddon. Born into the Jehovah's Witnesses in a town in the Scottish Borders, her childhood revolves around regular meetings in the Kingdom Hall, where she is hau...