Lara Prior-Palmer (born 24 June 1994) is an athlete and writer. She is the niece of British equestrian
Lucinda Green.
Mongol Derby
In 2013 Prior-Palmer became the first woman to win the
Mongol Derby, the world's longest horse race, as well as the youngest person ever to complete it. Her autobiography ''Rough Magic'', recounting her experience competing in the race, was published in 2019. The memoir received positive reviews in ''
The Washington Post'' and ''
The Daily Telegraph'':
Sarah Moss
Sarah Moss (born 1975) is an English writer and academic. She has published six novels, as well as a number of non-fiction works and academic texts. Her work has been nominated three times for the Wellcome Book Prize. She was appointed Assistan ...
, writing in ''
The Guardian'', stated: "It's the resistance to the obvious narratives that makes Rough Magic so appealing: the book undermines lazy women-in-the-wilderness tropes at every turn."
References
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1994 births
Living people
British female equestrians
British women memoirists
21st-century memoirists
British memoirists