Anthea Church is an Oxford educated writer and English teacher. She spent twenty years as a committed member of the Brahma Kumaris spiritual community in London before moving to Kent to take up a post as Head of English in a local girls' school. Having recently retired, Anthea is now devoting herself to her writing. She continues to teach privately.
"Raised in a cult - from which I barely escaped - I can wholeheartedly recommend Anthea Church's brilliant novel. In Liftman, we are shown how a young person's agency can be stolen to such an extent that the adult is in danger of living the rest of his life as a refugee in his own psyche."" EUGENE ROMAIN, Professional musician, husband, parent, teacher ""Liftman is a heart-wrenching insight into a world where beauty beguiles, and nothing is quite as it seems."" ANDREW HOGG, Former Sunday Times investigative journalist, co-author of Secret Cult"