Tara Westover's Educated is the autobiographical story of a girl born into a fundamentalist family in the USA. The family lives in rural Idaho, largely cut off from other people, as Tara's father prepares feverishly for the end of the world. Tara eventually manages to go to university. It's a story about being indoctrinated and controlled, about fanaticism, about courage, about learning to own one's own narrative, about realising that the people you love do not necessarily belong in your life, and about what it means to be educated.