Escape
Carolyn Jessop(Author)
Viking (Publisher)
Published on 3. December 2015
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-0-670-91719-8 (ISBN)
Description
Carolyn Jessop was born into a sect in Utah known as the Fundamentalist Church of the Latter Day Saints. Aged eighteen, she was forced to marry a man thirty-two years her senior, who already had three wives. For seventeen years, Carolyn lived as the property of her husband Merril, constantly watched and financially dependent. If she ever refused to submit to her husband on any matter, she was branded a troublemaker, and she and her children suffered When Warren Jeffs became leader of the 10,000-strong community in 2002, preaching that he was Jesus Christ incarnate and marrying ever-younger girls to older men within the sect, Carolyn became desperate to leave. Finally, when she discovered that her twelve-year-old daughter had spent three days at Jeff's home, she knew she had to do everything in her power to flee. "Escape" is the shocking true story of Carolyn's extraordinary life in the cult - and her struggle to free herself and save her eight children from its terrifying clutches.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN-13
978-0-670-91719-8 (9780670917198)
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Person
Carolyn Jessop was born in 1968 and raised in the largest community of the Fundamentalist Church of the Latter Day Saints in the US. She spent seventeen years in a polygamous marriage to one of the most powerful men in the FCLDS community, before escaping. She lives in Utah with her children.