A collection of quotes, reminiscences and ponderings by numerous people raised in a broad assortment of Plymouth Brethren (So-called) groups, all the way from gospel chapels on the one hand, to the cultish right-wing end of the movement, seen in groups like the Raven-Taylor-Hales Exclusives. Intended to spark thoughts and feelings.

Sometimes a "Christian upbringing" can go pretty wrong. This is about that. Strict, impersonal, unloving, image-conscious, status-focused legalism is something Jesus addressed pretty directly, as did the apostle Paul. This is also about growing up locked away inside a Christian community that worked like that. Darkly insightful, and told with a lot of humour, with personal statements from a large number of people with problematic Christian upbringings.

All boys from 10 to 54 who like long, gloomy church stories packed with melancholy introspection and soul-shattering morbidity will want to read every one of the Wikkid People church adventure books. Son of a disgraced Plymouth Brethren preacher man, Peter Grey is drowning in bitter disillusionment as he discovers that almost everything he's been told to do and believe in is either breathtakingly ill advised or else simply wrong. When his questions no longer match everyone else's favourite answers, he is ostracized. Failing at romance, his solution is to dig the deepest hole he can, climb into it and stay there, basking in self-loathing. Read these thrilling books after school hours and during vacations to experience unprecedented depths of unadulterated angst and unrelieved ennui.