On Friday, people in the Northern England can expect a rather cloudy morning with a few mostly light showers. The power of In the Days of Rain lies in the impact of life in the sect on Stott, her family and other members. In her depiction, a relatively benign if restrictive organisation becomes corrupted by a leadership who use Gestapo-style tactics to keep control.

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While Glasgow will get away with "light and quite patchy" rain, but some "heavier outbreaks" are possible west of the M74. Maximum temperatures of 19C are forecast. At university when I made new friends and confidantes, I couldn’t explain how I’d become a teenage mother, or shoplifted books for years, or why I was afraid of the dark and had a compulsion to rescue people, without explaining about the Brethren or the God they made for us, and the Rapture they told us was coming. But then I couldn’t really begin to talk about the Brethren without explaining about my father...’ Leaving your beauty routine out in the cold? Three beauty experts on the skin, hair and nail tips they're giving their celebrity clients this winter A cloudy day awaits in Wales on Friday - though there is the chance of some "bright spells" poking through. the beach. If the arrow is parallel to or pointing away from land, the wave height is likely to be lowerThe weather will then turn "widely unsettled" over the weekend with outbreaks of rain accompanied by stronger winds. The men were the all important people in the Brethren, women and children were second best. The women were not allowed to give their opinions, and had to wear headscarves and dress plainly. No fashionable wear was allowed. Televisions, radios and going to the cinema, were also banned. The book conveys a huge amount of information about Brethren and family history but never loses sight of what is most important: what it was actually like to be in a cult and have your life defined by its rules and its paranoia about the outside world. The book is divided into rough thirds, “Before,” “During” and “Aftermath,” and in the final section it is particularly fascinating to see how both the author and her father rebuilt their lives without the foundation of religion. He fell in love with Ingmar Bergman films and Yeats poetry; bought cars and crashed them; went to casinos. She engaged in minor acts of teenage rebellion – hippie clothes, pot – and had her imagination captured by Darwin’s ideas. For the first time she learned to trust her intellect and to be willing to admit doubts. Strictly star Layton Williams defends his pole dance routine after viewers compared it to a 'strip club' show

Rebecca Stott grew up in in Brighton, England, as a fourth-generation member of the Exclusive Brethren, a cult that believed the world is ruled by Satan. In this closed community, books that didn’t conform to the sect’s rules were banned, women were subservient to men and were made to dress modestly and cover their heads, and those who disobeyed the rules were punished and shamed. Yet Rebecca’s father, Roger Stott, a high-ranking Brethren minister, was a man of contradictions: he preached that the Brethren should shun the outside world, yet he kept a radio in the trunk of his car and hid copies of Yeats and Shakespeare behind the Brethren ministries. Years later, when the Stotts broke with the Brethren after a scandal involving the cult’s leader, Roger became an actor, filmmaker, and compulsive gambler who left the family penniless and ended up in jail. I now want to read everything else Stott has written, especially her two historical novels and two nonfiction books about Darwin. I own one of each.Things will stay dull this weekend with "periods of rain which turn heavy at times". Northerly winds will develop on Monday, resulting in sunshine and showers. These grim days only came to an end when, in true pantomime fashion, Jim Taylor Junior was outed as an alcoholic sex-fiend, much given to groping Members’ wives. More schisms ensued. In the process, Roger Stott lost his faith, and transferred his energy towards amateur dramatics and roulette. In 1981, he was sent to prison for a year for fiddling the books to finance his gambling addiction. For the rest of his life, he attempted to work out a foolproof system of roulette, a substitute, perhaps, for a religion that had once offered him a foolproof system of the world. At the center of the story is the decade of the 1960s, which Stott’s father dramatically refers to as the “Nazi decade.” During this time, the leader of the Brethren became more and more eccentric and exclusive, essentially creating a cult rather than a religious sect. Many of their practices reminded me of Scientology, based on memoirs like Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology and Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape. As with much of the UK, persistent and widespread rain will then sweep into the region on Saturday, lasting until Monday. West Midlands Silence of the Royal sisters-in-law: Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle 'have not spoken in four years', claims Sussexes 'mouthpiece' Omid Scobie