{"product_id":"educated-tara-westover","title":"Educated - Tara Westover","description":"\u003cp\u003eLonglisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the highway below, the school bus rolls past without stopping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe 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 doctors or hospitals. According to the state and federal government, she didn't exist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs she grew older, her father became more radical, and her brother, more violent. At sixteen Tara decided to educate herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer struggle for knowledge would take her far from her Idaho mountains, over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd travelled too far. If there was still a way home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEducated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes with the severing of the closest of ties. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Bubble\/Old School Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57687398515068,"sku":null,"price":5.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/8930\/2764\/files\/e-tw-01.jpg?v=1792155082","url":"https:\/\/bookbubble.co.uk\/products\/educated-tara-westover","provider":"Book Bubble\/Old School Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}