Chester author and endurance athlete Louise Minchin has won an award for her writing.
Last year, Louise published her book Fearless, Adventures with Extraordinary Women, which celebrates 17 trailblazing women around the world.
She joined them to do everything from free diving to cave exploration and explored what drives them and how they find the resilience and determination to go on despite life’s setbacks.
Out in paperback this week it, the book has just won the People’s Book Prize for non-fiction.
Television presenter Gabby Logan has called it ‘incredibly moving and inspiring’, while TV’s Lorraine Kelly said “it’s brilliant. I love it.”
Louise said: “Thank you to everyone who has loved the book and went out of their way to vote. I’m over the moon, and really touched and I know that every single woman who is mentioned in the book is to..”
This month Louise been continuing the theme of fearlessness and run a ‘brutal’ 25km at the Keswick Mountain Festival in Cumbria ‘unseasonably hot weather’.
Louise is currently working on her new book, a thriller set in a gruelling reality television show on a remote Scottish island. Isolation Island is out later this year.
