Michele Craig

The book jacket should read: a novel about a young girl from an abusive home kidnapped by a narcissistic sociopath who grooms her so that she becomes the "Sheila to his Rajneesh" when he becomes a cult leader. The most disturbing part of this book is how compelling a read it is, how much Theroux gets you to like Millroy while at the same time you see totally through him. He weaves the character of Prospero and Humbert Humbert from Lolita so deftly that only when you finish the novel do you realize that he has glorified the kidnap, grooming seduction and statutory rape of an underage, vulnerable girl.