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Cult Bride

Cult Bride

by Liz Cameron

How I Was Brainwashed – and How I Broke Free

Format
Paperback
Category
Non-Fiction
Publisher
Hardie Grant
Publish Date
June 2025

How are people like you and me brainwashed into cults?

In her gap year after high school, Liz is approached at a shopping centre by a woman who asks her survey questions about her Christian faith. Liz is slowly brought into her small, friendly church community - but little does she know that her new 'friends' are members of the South Korean cult Providence, which currently operates in more than 70 countries.

This is the story of how Liz endured mind-control techniques and a visit to the cult's convicted serial rapist leader in prison and came out the other side alive. She takes us behind the scenes to show us how cults operate in plain sight - and how we can unpick the systems that enable them to prey on vulnerable people.

This powerful, candid memoir tells one woman's extraordinary story of how she was broken down by a secretive, predatory cult - and how she broke free and remade her life.

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