Dorothy Levitt - The Fastest Girl on Earth, and book inspiration

I've just sent off the final edits for The Fastest Girl on Earth, my novel out June 5 2025.

Whilst this is a work of fiction, I've taken inspiration from the most incredible woman called Dorothy Levitt. She drive in the early 1900s and set, then broke, world records for speed as a woman and often competed against men where she won.

She was so inspiring to research, but her story goes very quiet around 1913, and I decided to fictionalise what I think could have happened before her premature death aged 40 in 1922... no spoilers, but all I'll say is, the woman knew how to drive fast, use a gun and fly a plane (ahem spy?).

Anyway, I'll leave it to you to decide if I made the right decision... the novel is out in a few months and pre-orders are up now!