An extraordinary memoir about a woman's discovery of education, its transformative power and the price she has to pay for it.
Tara Westover was born in rural Idaho. She studied history at Brigham Young University and upon graduation was awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She received an MPhil in intellectual history from Trinity College, Cambridge in 2009, and a PhD in the same subject in 2014.
A memoir to stand alongside classics by the likes of Jeanette
Winterson and Lorna Sage . . . a compelling and ultimately joyous
account of self-determination
*Sunday Times*
[A] fascinating, jaw-dropping memoir
*Observer*
[A] superb memoir… Westover’s journey from a remote corner of the
American west to one of the world’s grandest seats of learning is
extraordinary . . . Her story, of fighting to be herself, is as old
as the hills she came from, but Westover gives us such a fresh,
absorbing take that it deserves to bring her own private Idaho into
the bestseller lists, book groups and, eventually, cinemas.
*The Times*
Brilliantly recounts her journey towards knowledge and
enlightenment
*Guardian*
An amazing story, and truly inspiring. The kind of book everyone
will enjoy. IT’S EVEN BETTER THAN YOU’VE HEARD.
Her story is remarkable, as each extreme anecdote described in tidy
prose attests. That someone who grew up in her circumstances could
achieve as much as she has is astonishing . . . The central tension
she wrestles with throughout her book is how to be true to herself
without alienating her family. Her upbringing was extraordinary,
but that struggle is not.
*The Economist*
This memoir [is] one of the wisest accounts of family love and
betrayal that I’ve read
*Mail on Sunday*
[An] astonishing autobiography
Heartbreaking in its honesty...[an] intelligent and powerful
memoir
*Literary Review*
An astonishing and uplifting story about the transformative power
of education
*Mail on Sunday, 2018 Cultural Highlights*
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