Whit
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A little knowledge can be a very dangerous thing... Innocent in the ways of the world, an ingenue when it comes to pop and fashion, the Elect of God of a small but committed Stirlingshire religious cult: Isis Whit is no ordinary teenager. When her cousin Morag - Guest of Honour at the Luskentyrian's four-yearly Festival of Love - disappears after renouncing her faith, Isis is marked out to venture among the Unsaved and bring the apostate back into the fold. But the road to Babylondon (as Sister Angela puts it) is a treacherous one, particularly when Isis discovers that Morag appears to have embraced the ways of the Unsaved with spectacular abandon... Truth and falsehood; kinship and betrayal; 'herbal' cigarettes and compact discs - Whit is an exploration of the techno-ridden barrenness of modern Britain from a unique perspective.
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I've owned this book for ages, and finally got around reading it – I have a tendency to read English paperbacks when I'm traveling abroad, and very rarely otherwise; this book accompanied me to Amsterdam.
It's all about Isis, a Scottish teenager, who is a member of a weird religious cult. Not just a member, though – Isis is actually their Elect of God. She is tasked with a duty to journey to London to find an apostate cousin and to bring her back to the faith.
It's not an easy task, and while working at it, she ends up disturbing several well-kept secrets within the cult and the family behind it.
It was quite funny, warm and entertaining. As expected, the novel pokes at religion, but does it in a fairly polite and considerate way.
