Book Club 21 - Unfollow by Megan Phelps-Roper

Welcome to the Violet and Percy Book Club!

This month's book is 'Unfollow' by Megan Phelps-Roper - an honest memoir of a girl growing up in the extremist, homophobic Westboro Baptist Church and how she managed to break the ties to her family and put the church behind her.

There will be a new book every six weeks and once the review date has come around, please join in the discussion and leave your comments below or over on my Instagram (@violetandpercy.co.uk) - the more the merrier!

See you back here on April 12th.

"Megan Phelps-Roper was raised in the Westboro Baptist Church - the fire-and-brimstone religious sect at once aggressively homophobic and anti-Semitic, rejoiceful for AIDS and natural disasters, and notorious for its picketing the funerals of American soldiers. From her first public protest, aged five, to her instrumental role in spreading the church's invective via social media, her formative years brought their difficulties. But being reviled was not one of them. She was preaching God's truth. She was, in her words, 'all in'.

In November 2012, at the age of twenty-six, she left the church, her family, and her life behind.

Unfollow is a story about the rarest thing of all: a person changing their mind. It is a fascinating insight into a closed world of extreme belief, a biography of a complex family, and a hope-inspiring memoir of a young woman finding the courage to find compassion for others, as well as herself."

(Source: Waterstones)