Beryl: In Search of Britain’s Greatest Athlete by Jeremy Wilson
£20.00
Bookseller review by Diane:
What a woman! Although I have a passing interest in modern road racing I’m sad to say I’d never heard of Beryl Burton and her phenomenal cycling achievements. She wasn’t always nice… but in the modern world of arguably overpaid, sometimes drug enhanced, celebrity sportspeople, whose every performance is aided by the latest scientific research, she is an absolute breath of fresh air. She beat the top men at a time when women’s cycle racing was barely tolerated, whilst also working on a rhubarb farm and being a traditional housewife. Even though sport isn’t really my thing this is fascinating account of a woman who because of the time she was in had to be so much tougher and more determined than men had to be.
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