Deep into the Forest: What lies behind the walls of the "Sanctuary"?

Erina Reddan thought she’d had a pretty ordinary childhood, but when she started writing about a woman who discovers terrible secrets about The Sanctuary, a neighbouring closed community, she realised that she too had grown up in a kind of cult. She lived on an isolated farm in a religious community with rules about what you ate, and when, and she never met or interacted with anybody who wasn’t of the same faith. It wasn’t until decades later when the Royal Commission revealed that her nearby town was one of the hot spots for paedophilia in Victoria that she saw just how harmful giving a leader the authority of God was.