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Educated
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
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Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
Selected as a book of the year by Amazon, The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, New York Times, Economist, New Statesman, Vogue, Irish Times, Irish Examiner and RED Magazine.
The multi-million copy best seller.
A Book of the Decade, 2010-2020 (Independent).
Tara Westover and her family grew up preparing for the End of Days but, according to the government, she didn’t exist. She hadn’t been registered for a birth certificate. 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 hospitals.
As she grew older, her father became more radical and her brother more violent. At 16, Tara knew she had to leave home. In doing so she discovered both the transformative power of education and the price she had to pay for it.
From one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2019.
Shortlisted for the 2018 BAMB Readers' Awards.
Recommended by Barack Obama, Anthony Beevor, Blake Morrison and Nina Stibbe.
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"An amazing story, and truly inspiring. The kind of book everyone will enjoy. IT’S EVEN BETTER THAN YOU’VE HEARD." (Bill Gates)
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- David Bowden
- 03-03-18
Wonderful, inspiring book on the value of education
While this book has plenty of grim stories of life growing up in a Mormon survivalist home, this is much more than a book about survival.
Westover makes this a book about education in its clearest, most uncynical form. This is a hymn to the benefits of stepping outside of your comfort zone and learning not to be frightened of making mistakes on your path to knowledge.
It is similar to JD Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy. Yet whereas Vance’s journey from hillbilly to literary star could only make you admire his determination & discipline, Westover’s is a more humane vision. She fails, doubts and self-sabotages yet never loses faith that acquiring knowledge about the world and her fellow humans is a liberation (even when it unsettles).
Most importantly she provides hope for us all: that hopeless ignorance is only ever a book or good teacher away from being transformed, if you have the desire.
Like Lorna Sage’s Bad Blood it can be a challenging read at times: but what sings out is not the badness she experiences, but the goodness & generosity she frequently encounters (whilst remaining astounding generous to her family’s flaws)
A beautiful, inspiring read
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- sunflower
- 04-10-19
how childhoods differ
a wee bit slow to start - but once in, just had to keep listening. intriguing that a young girl can survive what she did - and come out like she did. very recommendable.
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- Nick Westlake
- 01-10-19
Excellent book
I felt that this was very well written and very well told story. Excellent book !
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- Amazon Customer
- 30-11-22
Fantastic memoir
Such an impressive and painful story, expertly written. I wished I could read it again for the first time.
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- Amazon Customer
- 25-01-21
Fascinating
Fascinating story, well told. Extremely evocative. I feel I visited her family and know them. Wonderful narration also
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- kate adamson
- 16-10-19
Couldn’t leave the car with this playing.
Outstanding book. I have so much respect for Tara and her drive to develop herself.
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- Mrs Smith 2000
- 06-06-21
Fantastic book
Such a good book. Shocking, interesting, gripping. Can't believe really it's all based on the author's actual life. Such an interesting tale. Definitely recommend.
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- Liss
- 31-08-21
Powerful!
This is such a powerful book. It takes you on a ride through a story only a brave person could share. I’m so glad Tara kept trying to break free so that she could see her brilliance because she is truly amazing!
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- Followingcharlie
- 10-11-21
An amazing memoir; every emotion and powerful!
Wonderful, sad, informative, emotional, uplifting and many other things but mostly an amazing read which is truly inspirational! A powerfully written story of this girls (then woman's) struggle to find a place for herself in a world where the trials of everyday life and a family who do everything they can to stop her being someone, a person, anything - it made me cringe then want to cry out with anger, then a second later delight... This is a superb memoir and leaves you thinking.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-07-19
Admirable
I don't usually like the most popular books but this one was different; what an amazing story with a whole lot of sole searching.
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