`An amazing story, and truly inspiring. ________________________ * From one of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people of 2019 * Shortlisted for the 2018 BAMB Readers'
Awards * Recommended as a summer read by Barack Obama, Antony Beevor, India Knight, Blake Morrison and Nina Stibbe.
In doing so she discovered both the transformative power of education, and the price she had to pay for it.
At sixteen, Tara knew she had to leave home.
As 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 hospitals.
She hadn't been registered for a birth certificate.
IT'
S EVEN BETTER THAN YOU'
VE HEARD.' - Bill Gates 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 BESTSELLER ________________________ Tara Westover and her family grew up preparing for the End of Days but, according to the government, she didn't exist.
The kind of book everyone will enjoy. `An amazing story, and truly inspiring