''For anyone who enjoyed Hillbilly Elegy or Educated, Unfollow is an essential text'' - Louis Theroux
''A moving, redemptive, clear-eyed account of religious indoctrination'' - Pandora Sykes
''A nuanced portrait of the lure and pain of zealotry'' New York Times
As featured on the BBC documentaries, ''The Most Hated Family in America'' and ''Surviving America''s Most Hated Family''
It was an upbringing in many ways normal. A loving home, shared with squabbling siblings, overseen by devoted parents. Yet in other ways it was the precise opposite: a revolving door of TV camera crews and documentary makers, a world of extreme discipline, of siblings vanishing in the night.
Megan Phelps-Roper was raised in the Westboro Baptist Church - the fire-and-brimstone religious sect at once aggressively homophobic and anti-Semitic, rejoiceful for AIDS and natural disasters, and notorious for its picketing the
