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They say she can’t win. She knows she can’t lose.

An expansive, inspiring feminist novel about one woman’s rise as a racing driver in mid-century Britain.
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‘A commanding, expansive, confident novel turbocharged with courage and heart’ JOSEPH O’CONNOR
‘An exhilarating story of dauntless persistence in the face of prejudice’ CARMELLA LOWKIS
‘Surprising, engaging and deeply affecting’ LISA SMITH
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It’s 1945 and Winifred ‘Freddy’ Vaux fears she’s the only person who isn’t thrilled the war is over.

With peace comes the end of her career as a military driver, commanding ambulances and recovery vehicles across London. All she wants is to drive and she still can – but not for her occupation and certainly not fast.

Yet speeding through the city’s war-torn streets one last time, she makes a resolution: she must pursue race car driving. No matter the cost.

From the country lanes of her youth to Europe’s most exhilarating tracks, Freddy’s thunderous ambition takes her where no woman has gone before. However, travelling at such speeds means that friends and lovers can be lost in an instant.

Freddy has a lot to learn. Driving was the easy part.
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Praise for Kelly Frost:
‘Compelling’ Sunday Times
‘A storyteller who is here to stay’ Joseph O’Connor
‘A startling new talent’ Peter James

Publisher Review

A commanding, expansive, confident novel turbocharged with courage and heart — Joseph O’Connor The Racing Line is an exhilarating story of dauntless persistence in the face of prejudice. I simply adored Freddy Vaux, a compellingly complex character who seems real enough to come freewheeling off the page at any moment. — Carmella Lowkis In The Racing Line, Kelly Frost skilfully weaves an important and overlooked chapter of social history into an immersive and wonderfully compelling novel. The story of Winfred ‘Freddy’ Vaux and her determination to become a professional racing driver in a deeply conservative post war Britain, provides a powerful insight into a woman’s fight for agency in her personal and professional life that still resonates today. This is historical fiction that is surprising, engaging and deeply affecting. * Lisa Smith, author of JAMAICA ROAD *