Thank you to NetGalley for an e-arc in exchange for an honest review. 

"The more oppressed you feel, the more you turn to your community...you realise you can only be truly understood by the church."

This was a complex and hard-hitting book primarily structured around the traumatic circumstances surrounding the author's father's death, and the other factors in her life affecting her childhood such as her born-again Christian faith. Personally, due to my own religious leanings and experiences, King's searching look at the power of organised religion was the most fascinating part of this book. In the vein of [book:Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit|15055], the reader learns how even a small religious community can exert great influence, for better or for worse, and what this might look like for a child who hadn't known anything different. 
My only critique is that as we reached King's later adolescence and her foray into the thinking of spiritualism, there was less and less detail in comparison to the discussions of the church in the first-half. It would have perhaps been interesting to see more of a comparison there. 
A very interesting life-story, with powerful messages about class and community in the UK.