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Tara Westover grew up in on Buck Peak, a beautiful mountain in rural Idaho, in a household that was in a perpetual state of preparation for the End of Days.\n\nHer family didn't talk about the summer, it was \u2018canning season\u2019 to them, a time spent furiously preserving peaches and other foodstuffs to stockpile for the inevitable End of Man.\n\nWestover\u2019s father, a Mormon Survivalist, lived in fear of the \u2018feds\u2019 throughout her childhood, but with a divine belief that everything that happens in this world \u2013 good or bad \u2013 is God\u2019s will.\n\nShe wasn\u2019t registered for a birth certificate until she was old enough to ask for one and because her father didn\u2019t believe in doctors or the public school system, she had no medical or educational records by the time she left home at 17.\n\nOn the first R\xf3is\xedn Meets podcast recorded in front of a live audience at The Gutter Bookshop in Dublin, Tara Westover talks to R\xf3is\xedn Ingle about her memoir, Educated. \n\nIt tells the story of her childhood and explains how she went from bare minimum home-schooling in an isolated part of the U.S., to earning a PhD at the elite Trinity College, Cambridge in Britain.