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- Ali Millar was born in Edinburgh in 1980 and raised in the Scottish Borders as a Jehovah’s Witness. On leaving the organisation she obtained an MA in Creative Writing from Edinburgh Napier University. Her debut memoir, The Last Days - which recounts her experiences growing up as part of the Jehovah’s Witnesses - was published by Ebury in 2022.
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Jul 12, 2022 · Ali Millar was in her twenties when she realised there was a world beyond the religious regime she had been raised in. Ahead of the publication of her memoir, The Last Days, she tells Simran Hans how she got out.
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When Millar was born, her mother learnt that she'd been deceived by her new child's father, and that he was already married with children. He didn't stick around. "When he left, she was really vulnerable," Millar says. "And the Witnesses came knocking." The young family entered the organisation voluntarily but they needed to adopt new beliefs. "[Th...
By her teens, Millar says she was doing "normal" things like having relationships and experimenting with alcohol. But she was hiding all of it from her mother and the church. "I was really ashamed … and I just wanted to be pure," she says. She developed an eating disorder as a "way of me trying to become clean". "I became obsessed with cleanliness ...
In 2017, after Millar's public shaming and separation from her husband, her mother disowned her. She'd discovered that Millar was questioning her faith. At a Witnesses convention that Millar's mother attended, a video was played about a girl choosing to leave the religion, and her parents consequently shunning her. "That was shown as a loving provi...
Ali Millar is an author and journalist. Born in Edinburgh and raised in the Scottish Borders, she now lives in London. Her debut, THE LAST DAYS: a memoir of faith, desire and freedom was published by Penguin Random House in 2022.
Updated 2 years ago. 3 min read. When writer Ali Millar was 28, she walked away from her life as a Jehovah’s Witness, leaving behind her entire family, friends and sense of self. Here,...
Jul 14, 2022 · This is the moment that Ali Millar decided to leave the religious group that had defined her entire life. Her book, The Last Days, is out now: https://amzn.t...
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Born in Edinburgh and raised in the Scottish Borders, Ali Millar now lives in London. Her first memoir, The Last Days: A memoir of faith, desire, and freedom (Penguin Random House, 2022) was released to widespread critical acclaim.
Jul 19, 2022 · Ali Millar was born into the Jehovah's Witnesses and spends her early life waiting for Armageddon. As she gets older she begins to question the religion's control over her life. But she knows that any attempts to leave risk losing all contact with her family.
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