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The Rapture
The Rapture | Claire McGlasson
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Dilys is a devoted member of a terribly English cult: The Panacea Society, populated almost entirely by virtuous single ladies. When she strikes up a friendship with Grace, a new recruit, God finally seems to be smiling upon her. The friends become closer as they wait for the Lord to return to their very own Garden of Eden, and Dilys feels she has found the right path at last. But Dilys is wary of their leader's zealotry and suspicious of those who would seem to influence her for their own ends. As her feelings for Grace bud and bloom, the Society around her begins to crumble. Faith is supplanted by doubt as both women come to question what is true and fear what is real.
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TheEllieMo
The Rapture | Claire McGlasson
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I enjoyed this fictionalised version of the real-life Panacea Society, a group of mostly women who believed that one of them, Octavia (born Mabel Barltrop) was the Daughter of God. Some artistic licence taken with the timeline but most of the events and people in the book are real.

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TheEllieMo
The Rapture | Claire McGlasson
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Genuinely don‘t know how I ended up here but I‘ve currently got 6 books on the go!

Current progress:
Long-term chunksters:
Ulysses 🥴 36%
Mason & Dixon 🤔 33%
Clarissa 😮 22%

March reads:
Everything Fat Loss 🤩 73%
The Rapture 👍🏻 41%
Braised Pork 🪄😍43%

Braised Pork is a re-read, I read it 3 years ago, but it‘s my IRL book club‘s choice for this month.

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TheEllieMo
The Rapture | Claire McGlasson
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My next read - looks interesting. Looks like the snow I just had to walk through was trying to activate the Blessed Linen Square 🤣

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CJEskriett
The Rapture | Claire McGlasson

This book was amazingly moving, and to think it is based on an actual group of people.... the ending had me moved beyond words.