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When the World Didn’t End audiobook
- By: Guinevere Turner
- Narrator: Guinevere Turner
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Women
- Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
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When the World Didn’t End Audiobook Summary
In this immersive, spell-binding memoir, an acclaimed screenwriter tells the story of her childhood growing up with the infamous Lyman Family cult—and the complicated and unexpected pain of leaving the only home she’d ever known
On January 5, 1975, the world was supposed to end. Under strict instructions, six-year-old Guinevere Turner put on her best dress, grabbed her favorite toy, and waited with the rest of her community for salvation—a spaceship that would take them to live on Venus. But the spaceship never came.
Guinevere did not understand that her family was a cult. She spent most of her days on a compound in Kansas, living apart from her mother with dozens of other children who worked in the sorghum fields and roved freely through the surrounding pastures, eating mulberries and tending to farm animals. But there was a dark side to this bucolic existence. Guinevere was part of the Lyman Family, a secluded cult spearheaded by Mel Lyman, a self-proclaimed savior, committed to isolation from a World he declared had lost its way. When Guinevere caught the attention of Jessie, the woman everyone in the Family called the Queen, her status was elevated—suddenly she was traveling with the inner circle among communities in Los Angeles, Boston, and Martha’s Vineyard.
But before long, the life Guinevere had known ended. Her mother, from whom she had been separated since age three, left the Family with another disgraced member, and Guinevere and her four-year-old sister were forced to leave with them. Traveling outside the bounds of her cloistered existence, Guinevere was thrust into public school for the first time, a stranger in a strange land wearing homemade clothes, and clueless about social codes. Now out in the World she’d been raised to believe was evil, she faced challenges and horrors she couldn’t have imagined.
Drawing from the diaries that she kept throughout her youth, Guinevere Turner’s memoir is an intimate and heart-wrenching chronicle of a childhood touched with extraordinary beauty and unfathomable ugliness, the ache of yearning to return to a lost home—and the slow realization of how harmful that place really was.
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When the World Didn’t End Full Details
| Narrator | Guinevere Turner |
| Length | 9 hours 49 minutes |
| Author | Guinevere Turner |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 27, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780593682395 |
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The publisher of the When the World Didn’t End is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: true story, book club books, survival, extremists, fundamentalism, fundamentalist, warren jeffs, abuse, sexism, patriarchy, strong women, book club recommendations, survivor, female author, religion, based on a true story, childhood trauma, feminist, women, memoir books, cults book, cultish, cults and extreme beliefs, family, kansas, true stories, biographies of women, education, isolation, trauma, childhood, biographies and memoirs, coming of age, cults, cult, autobiographies, autobiography, biographies, biography, memoirs, memoir, Biography & Autobiography, Women, Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, Religion, Cults The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Women
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The publisher of the When the World Didn’t End is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780593682395.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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