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** A Sunday Times, New Statesman and Guardian Book of the Year **
**Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022**

''A stunningly well-written, funny, heartrending and utterly gripping memoir about learning how to live with who we are. Read it. Read it now'' Nathan Filer

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 and the fear of damnation.

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.

Recklessly honest, and as funny as it is grave, Original Sins is an extraordinary memoir of faith, family, sha

Original Sins

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Publishing
      Published 7 July 2022
      ISBN-13 9781784743826
      978-1784743826
      ISBN-10 1784743828
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ** A Sunday Times, New Statesman and Guardian Book of the Year **
      **Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022**

      ''A stunningly well-written, funny, heartrending and utterly gripping memoir about learning how to live with who we are. Read it. Read it now'' Nathan Filer

      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 and the fear of damnation.

      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.

      Recklessly honest, and as funny as it is grave, Original Sins is an extraordinary memoir of faith, family, sha

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