"God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast and when I run, I feel his pleasure."
Mary P Autobiography
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Mary Peters, Arrow Books, Hutchinson, 1974 ISBN029912330
The book describes the progress of a girl in Northern Ireland who received two tons of sand for her 15th birthday - in order to practise long jump and high jump in the back garden – and who later became Olympic champion in the pentathlon.
The book was reprinted as part of in 2023 as Mary Peters my story