The Last Great Day: A novel based on a TRUE STORY

A novel based on a true story of one family's journey from a doomsday cult to freedom.

"The Last Great Day is a compelling tale of faith and family, the pick of the books that Howzat! reviews here." INPRESS MAGAZINE

From the back of the book:

The year is 1969. Henry Conroy is a minister in an American doomsday cult based in England. Becoming a father for the first time, Henry moves his family home to Australia where his wife Elizabeth is reunited with her parents and pregnant, sickly sister.

When as a result of their beliefs the family suffer a series of avoidable tragedies, Henry begins to question the true character of his leader. Elizabeth, however, driven by grief and guilt holds ever tight to her faith and, even after a harrowing encounter with the man she and her husband once so revered, refuses to face the shocking truth.

Disheartened by failed prophecies, and impelled by disturbing rumours of sexual abuse, a defiant Henry relocates the family to church headquarters in California, where he faces an agonizing choice between continuing to live a lie and the possibility of losing his family forever.

Based on a true story, The Last Great Day has been described as a "fascinating story", "a gripping novel" and "a compelling tale".