Dick Francis's horse-racing thrillers have been delighting fans for almost forty years, selling sixty million copies in thirty-five languages, and winning admirers from Kingsley Amis to the Queen Mother.Graham Lord's affectionate yet perceptive biography tells not only the riveting tale of Dick's remarkable life - the horsey Welsh childhood, the triumphs as champion jump-jockey, the 1956 Grand National tragedy when he so nearly won the race on Devon Loch - but also the intriguing secret story of Dick's astonishing wife. For the story of the Dick Francis books is the story of them both: their idyllically close marriage, and their spectacularly successful literary partnership.
