Laura Elizabeth Woollett (Books)

Laura Elizabeth Woollett Books

Laura Elizabeth Woollett delves into the darker aspects of human nature and relationships, exploring the allure of evil and its impact on those drawn into its orbit. Her collections of stories and novels often examine the lives of characters entwined with infamous or radical figures. Woollett offers a penetrating look at the motivations and consequences that shape her characters' destinies. Her writing is known for its intensity and ability to render unsettling scenarios with a chilling precision.

Beautiful Revolutionary

416 pages
15 hours of reading

The thrilling new novel, inspired by the events at Jonestown in the 1970s. It's the summer of 1968, and Evelyn Lynden is a woman at war with herself. Minister's daughter. Atheist. Independent woman. Frustrated wife. Bitch with a bleeding heart. Following her conscientious-objector husband Lenny to the rural Eden of Evergreen Valley, California, Evelyn wants to be happy with their new life. Yet she finds herself disillusioned with Lenny's passive ways -- and anxious for a saviour. Enter the Reverend Jim Jones, the dynamic leader of a new revolutionary church ... Meticulously researched and masterfully written, Beautiful Revolutionaryexplores the allure of the real-life charismatic leader who would destroy so many. It follows Evelyn as she is pulled into Jones's orbit -- an orbit it would prove impossible for her to leave.

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