Location: Canada
Member Since:
Feb. 08, 2016
Maggie Rayner
Biography
MAGGIE RAYNER lives in Vancouver on the West Coast of British Columbia. Her early years were spent in Gibsons on the Sunshine Coast. Sailing, biking, and creating beautiful interiors endure as passions. She has worked as an artisan and designer, and in marketing and law.
Belief systems and the choices people make - or don't make - are of special interest to her. Reader response to her 2011 article in the Vancouver Sun, “Polygamy and Me: Growing up Mormon,” was the motivation for writing her memoir and first book, In Polygamy's Shadow.
Belief systems and the choices people make - or don't make - are of special interest to her. Reader response to her 2011 article in the Vancouver Sun, “Polygamy and Me: Growing up Mormon,” was the motivation for writing her memoir and first book, In Polygamy's Shadow.
Where to find Maggie Rayner online
Website: http://www.maggierayner.com
Books
Borrowed Trousers, Diary of a Mormon Missionary, Volume II of In Polygamy's Shadow
by Maggie Rayner
Price:
$7.98 USD.
Words: 82,680.
Language:
English.
Published: October 28, 2016
.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Mormonism, Nonfiction » History » Biography
A JOURNAL, KEPT SECRET
Borrowed Trousers, Diary of a Mormon Missionary draws the reader into the thoughts and feelings of a cowboy from Alberta serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Texas and Louisiana, from 1937 to 1939. He suffers hardship and sickness, and falls in love while the woman he had planned to marry waits at home.
In Polygamy's Shadow: From a Mormon Childhood to a Life of Choice
by Maggie Rayner
Price:
$7.98 USD.
Words: 72,010.
Language:
English.
Published: February 8, 2016
.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Mormonism
A true story of growing up Mormon in the 1950s and 60s on the West Coast of British Columbia. Maggie Rayner struggles to keep herself from being devoured by the Mormon church and her parents' unrelenting loyalty to it.