Under a new, even more hardline regime in the Sixties, the list grew longer with each passing year: no television, no newspapers, no radio, no cinema, no wristwatches, no meals to be taken in restaurants, trains or canteens, nothing to be eaten or drunk in the company of non-Brethren, no membership of any sort of external organisation.

But as he lay dying, Rebecca tries to reconcile the tragic loss of her father in death as well as the last few years of his life.This is an important story to tell and I commend Rebecca Stott for her fortitude and courage in telling it. This is a sad but gripping true story of Rebecca Stott's family who were 'caught up in' the Exclusive Brethren. A lovely, fascinating book, with a tremendous lead character and some powerful glimpses into the life of an idiosyncratic UK cult - I am actually staying at the writing residency where the beginning is set! When the family finally leave the Brethren, their lives are told in a different perspective, as they try to fit in to the outside world again, and also finding they have the freedom of choice.

It was a harsh and restrictive time that she grew up in, trying to adapt at making friends and attend school when she wasn't allowed to have contact with those that weren't Exclusive Brethren. In The Days of Rain describes how an already tight grip on loyalty became squeezed even harder, as a new American Brethren leader, “Big Jim” Taylor Junior, exerted a stranglehold.This documentary features Rebecca's father, Roger Stott, being interviewed four years after leaving the Brethren. Ask rain from the LORD in the season of the spring rain, from the LORD who makes the storm clouds, and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone the vegetation in the field.