'A remarkable memoir about triumphing over a survivalist upbringing' - The Sunday Times 'Westover's journey from a remote corner of the American west to one of the world's greatest seats of learning is extraordinary' - The Times Educated is a compelling and ultimately joyous account of self-determination' - The Sunday Times '.a memoir that is fit to stand alongside classics by the likes of Jeanette Winterson and Lorna Sage, Andrea Ashworth and Patricia Lockwood.the writing soars. Publisher: Cornerstone ISBN: 9780099511021 Number of pages: 400 Weight: 279 g Dimensions: 197 x 128 x 26 mm MEDIA REVIEWS With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, from her singular experience Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes, and the will to change it. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes with the severing of the closest of ties. If there was still a way home.Įducated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. Only then would she wonder if she'd travelled too far. Her struggle for knowledge would take her far from her Idaho mountains, over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge.

At sixteen Tara decided to educate herself. According to the state and federal government, she didn't exist.Īs she grew older, her father became more radical, and her brother, more violent. She had no school records because she'd never set foot in a classroom, and no medical records because her father didn't believe in doctors or hospitals.

She hadn't been registered for a birth certificate. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected.

Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. I am only seven, but I understand that it is this fact, more than any other, that makes my family different: we do not go to school. On the highway below, the school bus rolls past without stopping. Longlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019

Educated by Tara Westover