Sandy Myhre, founder of Women’s Worldwide Car of the Year and Honorary President of the organization, has had a book launched worldwide through UK publishers, Austin Macauley, of London, Cambridge, New York and Sharjah.
Entitled ‘One Lady Owner, Memoirs of a Motoring Madam’ the book covers her long history as a motoring and motor sport journalist but it’s more than mere memoir. It’s part biographical and part autobiographical.
The book examines just about everything you need to know about a car except how the engine works and how to drive it. It questions why, when women set out to buy a car, they invariably take a man with them. It asks why women are so poorly represented in all forms of motorsport. Although women are increasingly infiltrating both these male-dominated arenas, they are still well within a minority.
For Marta García, Executive President of Women’s Worldwide Car of the Year, “One Lady Owner, Memoirs of a Motoring Madam’ is a remarkable work that combines passion, expertise, and an authentic perspective on the automotive world. The book offers a courageous and much-needed insight into the evolving role of women in an industry traditionally dominated by men, serving as an inspiration for both car enthusiasts and future generations of women in the sector”.
One Lady Owner is unique in that it attempts to answer vexed questions while at the same time delivering a reasoned and often humorous dissertation on cars, the motor industry and on motor racing.
“The book has developed into a story of emancipation for women and cars and women in motor sport and although it didn’t start out like that it evolved that way,” Sandy Myhre said.
She begins – and ends – with her first love Women’s Worldwide Car of the Year and then displays her well-known sense of humour by having a man in the passenger seat. She also has summations on car advertising and the case of disappearing woman, she unleashes the petrosexual and she interprets motor company acronyms.
The book examines car designers, it lists women who have made a mark on the industry and the sport and outlines women mechanics. All these women have a history dating back to the late 19th century, as, indeed, have many other women.
She suggests the best time and the best way to buy and sell a car, she looks at EVs, at car parts made naturally and discuses all the alternative fuels available.
In the end the reader will be well informed on cars, the motor industry and motor sport.
SM Colour image – photographer credit Flash Gordon
YouTube trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdkC6ac4r88
Available from: https://www.austinmacauley.com/book/one-lady-owner
Or Google: ISBN No: 9781037110887
Author: sandymyhre@gmail.com
Phone: +64 27 667 8591
