Original Sins av Matt Rowland Hill

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<p><b>** A <i>Sunday Times</i>, <i>New Statesman </i>and <i>Guardian</i> Book of the Year **</b><br><b>**Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022**<br><br>''A stunningly well-written, funny, heartrending and utterly gripping memoir about learning how to live with who we are. Read it. Read it now'' Nathan Filer</b><br><br>Matt Rowland Hill grew up the son of a minister in an evangelical Christian church in south Wales and then south-east England. It was a childhood fraught with bitter family conflict and the fear of damnation.<br><br>After a devastating loss of faith in his late teens, Matt began his search for salvation elsewhere, turning to books before developing a growing relationship with alcohol and drugs. He became addicted to crack and heroin in his early twenties, an ordeal that stretched over a decade and culminated in a period of hopeless darkness.<br><br>Recklessly honest, and as funny as it is grave, <i>Original Sins</i> is an extraordinary memoir of faith, family, sha