Another of my books about women racing drivers, although this one does more than race cars.
The oddest thing about this book is that we, the readers, never really find out who the Hon Mrs Victor Bruce is. There is only one slip of her first name in the entire book, where we find she was called Mary. It’s almost as if she wants to maintain some sort of anonymity.
The book relates Mrs Bruce’s various motor racing, flying and horse-riding exploits, aided and abetted by her husband who was also a racing driving.
Whilst I read this book to find out more about the pre-war women racing drivers I was fascinated by the flying sections of this book. The Hon Mrs Victor Bruce was involved in the development of air to air refuelling of planes as well as being part of a flying circus!
I think to enjoy this book you need to have an interest in motor racing or planes. As an autobiography it is a very frustrating books, especially when Mrs Bruce had a fairly scandalous life for an Edwardian young lady.
Someone needs to write proper biographies of some of these racing and racy women.
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