Educated

Educated is the remarkable true story of Tara Westover, who grew up in a remote Idaho mountain community with a father who believed the government and formal education were instruments of control. She never attended school, was not registered at birth, and spent her childhood working in the family’s junkyard and preparing for the end of days. Through sheer determination and the discovery of books, Westover taught herself enough to gain admission to Brigham Young University, and eventually earned a PhD from Cambridge. The memoir is a profound meditation on the power of education to remake a self, the complexity of family loyalty, and the agonising cost of choosing truth over belonging. One of the most compelling and widely praised memoirs of the past decade.