Original Sins: An extraordinary memoir of faith, family, shame and addiction

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Hill grew up the son of a minister in a strict Baptist church. Call us on: +442033020460 This story takes us to his bleakest, most desperate moments and recounts his struggle towards the light. He became addicted to crack and heroin in his early twenties, an ordeal that stretched over a decade and culminated in a period of hopeless darkness. In 1783, he opened Surrey Chapel in London's Blackfriars Road to which thirteen Sunday schools were attached, catering for over 3,000 children. Hill’s addiction stretched over a decade, culminating in a suicide attempt and weeks in a secure psychiatric unit. Matt Rowland Hill grew up the son of a minister in an evangelical Christian church in south Wales and then south-east England. " —Catherine Cho, author of Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness An electrifying debut memoir of a pastor's son chronicling his loss of faith, his addiction to heroin and our universal quest to find something to believe in Matt Rowland Hill had two great loves in his life: Jesus and heroin. It has echoes of Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting, Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Tara Westover’s Educated, but it is firmly its own very special thing, too.