Original Sins
- Author Matt Rowland Hill
- Narrator Daniel Hawksford
- Publisher Random House
- Run Time 9 hours and 39 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Christian Churches, denominations, groups, Drugs and alcohol: social aspects, Memoirs, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival.
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'Isn't everyone's childhood an indoctrination in the more or less deranged outlook of the people who raised them? And isn't growing up for everyone a more or less successful attempt to overcome their conditioning and see clearly, with their own eyes?'
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, the ever-present threat of hell and damnation, and a burgeoning cycle of temptation, sin and shame. 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. This story takes us to his bleakest, most desperate moments and recounts his struggle towards the light.
Original Sins is an extraordinary memoir. It is a story of faith, family, loss, shame and addiction, but ultimately it is about survival, growing up and learning to live. It's recklessly honest, as funny as it is grave, courageous and compulsive.
© Matt Rowland Hill 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
Critics Review
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Electric…artfully structured…with novelistic verve… Hill is a blazing talent
Observer -
His remarkable, funny, arrestingly well-written memoir brings to mind Edward St Aubyn‘s Patrick Melrose novels, but is also entirely, exhilaratingly its own thing
The Times -
A beautifully controlled tale of a life spiralling out of control…Original Sins is one of the best books I’ve read this year, full of vivacity and honesty…To carve such an entertaining and beautifully paced story from such depths of misery suggests a writer of immense gifts
Sunday Times -
This book is brilliant. The writing shimmers off the page
Guardian -
[Hill] deploys dark wit and needle-sharp insight to describe how he swapped a love of Jesus for a love of class-A drugs… devastatingly good… I was blown away
Daily Telegraph
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