“The new life”: Ella Jeffery on Beautiful Revolutionary by Laura Elizabeth Woollett
Beautiful Revolutionary
by Laura Elizabeth Woollett
Scribe
ISBN: 978192573039
Reviewed by ELLA JEFFERY
Laura Elizabeth Woollett’s first novel, Beautiful Revolutionary, takes the reader into the lives of several members of the Peoples Temple, the socialist church created by the charismatic, manipulative and controlling preacher Jim Jones in California in the 1960s. The novel follows the church’s expansion in America and eventual mass exodus to Guyana where Jones and his devoted followers established a community, named Jonestown, deep in the jungle.