Blinded By The Light

Blinded By The Light
Sherry Ashworth

A gripping thriller about a teenage boy sucked into the dark world of a cult.Eighteen-year-old Joe is bored. Stuck at home after a bout of glandular fever, all his friends have left Manchester and gone to university, leaving Joe with nothing but his rather annoying family for company. When he meets Kate and Nick on the train, something about them appeals to him. So he goes to see them at their commune, a farm in rural Todmorden.Gradually, Joe’s life starts to make sense. With the White Ones he is wanted, and his life has a purpose. When he meets Bea at the farm, he really feels that his life is complete, and he decides to leave his family and live with the White Ones forever.But there is something sinister about Fletcher, the Todmorden White Ones leader. Fletcher seems obsessed with Joe – convinced that he is a Perfect, and someone to be venerated. A dramatic trip to the wildest reaches of Orkney will show Joe his destiny – and reveal some shocking truths.

BLINDED BY THE LIGHT

SHERRY ASHWORTH

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First published in Great Britain by CollinsFlamingo 2003

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Dedication (#ulink_987f9191-1984-57fb-af9c-cf5d6f946bb2)

Thanks to Linda Kerr, Robyn Ashworth, Jonathan Abel

For Greg and John

Contents

Cover (#uf8cdc933-ef17-515a-9bbd-684994355eeb)

Title Page (#u7f445495-c999-5673-ba54-ce2bf85ceadb)

Copyright (#u4796eb39-e916-5ff8-8ba8-c0fddf824a90)

Dedication (#u82e4bf46-8660-5d19-9457-95b8dafb59cb)

Part One: The Journey (#uac622aca-5fe6-59e9-94d1-1f46a014236e)

Bodies Recovered (#u59a2b839-41ff-5826-946c-4d7808ca0abe)

1. From The Preface, Rendall’s Book of Prayers (#uad148335-6cb7-5db5-9d8a-6cafea24d686)

2. From Rendall’s Parables: The Tale of the Traveller (#u4b048167-ff8e-59f4-9988-f333affe8d87)

3. From Rendall’s Laws Governing Purity: Abstinence (#u8cb4a2ef-ef61-5bbc-acce-2395ef52b58c)

4. From Rendall’s Book of Prayers: The Morning Service (#u9fc4b907-2362-56f0-9999-143495753750)

5. From Rendall’s Parables: The Tale of the Hungry Child (#ubf15181b-bf20-5676-b55a-30a67ba03fc4)

6. From Rendall’s Parables: The Tale of the Brothers (#udd1a3258-f136-5ba4-9bd4-317fe6ef60a1)

Part Two: The Arrival (#litres_trial_promo)

7. From Rendall’s Laws Governing Purity: Alternate Sense Deprivation (#litres_trial_promo)

8. From Rendall’s Book of Prayers: The Induction Service (#litres_trial_promo)

9. From Rendall’s Parables: The Tale of the Stallion (#litres_trial_promo)

10. From Selected Commentaries on Rendall: “They were male and female together.” (#litres_trial_promo)

11. Letter to all Cell Leaders: From Colin Rendall (#litres_trial_promo)

12. From Rendall’s Laws Governing Purity: Degrees of Passion (#litres_trial_promo)

13. From Rendall’s Laws Governing Purity: antimatter (#litres_trial_promo)

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15. From Rendall’s Book of Prayers: Prayer for Recovery (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Three: The Revelation (#litres_trial_promo)

16. Bea’s Story (#litres_trial_promo)

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18. Bea’s Story (#litres_trial_promo)

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20. Bea’s Story (#litres_trial_promo)

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22. Bea’s Story (#litres_trial_promo)