Abode of Love - Barlow, Kate
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Abode of Love is Kate Barlow's remarkable story of growing up in a religious cult. In 1948, she and her mother went to live with her two sisters, her grandmother, and some 20 elderly ladies at the Agapemone, a ramshackle estate in the village of Spaxton in southwest England. Young Kate's curiosity about her new home and her family was met with a wall of secrecy, but at age 14 she had pieced together enough of the story to understand the rest. Founded in the nineteenth century, the Agapemone (Greek for "abode of love") was led by her grandfather, who claimed to be the reincarnation of the…mehr

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Abode of Love is Kate Barlow's remarkable story of growing up in a religious cult. In 1948, she and her mother went to live with her two sisters, her grandmother, and some 20 elderly ladies at the Agapemone, a ramshackle estate in the village of Spaxton in southwest England. Young Kate's curiosity about her new home and her family was met with a wall of secrecy, but at age 14 she had pieced together enough of the story to understand the rest. Founded in the nineteenth century, the Agapemone (Greek for "abode of love") was led by her grandfather, who claimed to be the reincarnation of the Messiah. What's more, her grandmother was not his legal wife, but his "spiritual bride," and some of the other ladies who lived at the estate had also been his consorts.
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Kate Barlow spent her childhood at Agapemone in Spaxton, Somerset, England. She served in the Women's Royal Air Force in the early 1960s where she attained the rank of Flying Officer -- a bit of misnomer as she says women were not allowed to fly back then. They also had to leave the forces once they were married, so in 1965 she left the WRAF. Ms. Barlow raised two sons and waited until coming to Canada to embark on a new career in journalism. She studied at Sheridan College in the early 1980s, going on to a rewarding career as a reporter with the Hamilton Spectator Ms. Barlow says it was the kind of career she had always wanted. "I remember wanting to be a newspaper reporter when I was about 16 -- was it seeing the press posse waiting outside the gates of the A after my grandmother died? Probably, as I can still remember my fascination with the press appearance." Kate Barlow now lives in Oakville, Ontario. Abode of Love is her first book.