Oranges and lemons

Tim Guest gives an insider’s view of how a charlatan fooled many people most of the time in his childhood memoir of life in a commune. My Life in Orange by Tim Guest Granta £12, pp300 A large slice of my childhood was spent living in a commune in Norfolk, and a great deal of what Tim Guest recounts in his memoir of growing up as a child of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh – in communes such as Medina Rajneesh in Suffolk, as well as Pune in India, Oregon and Cologne – stirs memories. I remember the absolute freedom afforded