Description
The inspirational story of the former women’s rugby captain, Mud, Maul, Mascara delivers a refreshingly honest autobiography of life in the scrum and off the field in a sport with little of the financial reward and recognition of its male counterpart.
Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2020
Catherine Spencer was the captain of the England women's rugby team for three years. She scored eighteen tries for England, won six of the eight Six Nations competitions she took part in, and captained her team to three championship titles, a European cup, two Nations Cup tournament victories and the World Cup final held on home soil in 2010, which thrust women's rugby into the limelight. All of this while holding down a full time job, because the women's team, unlike the men's, did not get paid for their sport.
Mud, Maul, Mascara is an effort to reconcile alleged opposites, to show the woman behind the international sporting success. Painfully honest about the mental struggles Catherine faced during, and after, her career as an elite athlete, it is also warm, funny and inspirational - a book for anyone who has ever had a dream, or self-doubt, or a yearning for a really good, mud-proof mascara.
Number of pages: 272
Dimensions: 240 x 159 mm
