My books…
The Pits
I wrote The Pits after three years presenting ‘behind-the-scenes,’ ‘build-up-to-the-race’ VTs on ITV1’s coverage of F1 racing. It was a strange job - it paid handsomely and I flew around the world, but the TV production company were very honest about not wanting a ‘non-F1’ expert on board - despite the wishes of the channel. This meant I was on the tele for about four and half minutes every two weeks.
It was also a tough environment for a woman who wasn’t looking to get laid (15 years later I felt smugly vindicated when the sport finally ditched the Bikini-clad Grid Girls).
The book was effectively a ‘bridge-burning’ exercise
Other journalists were very nice about The Pits, saying that it was “an incendiary, brave and revelatory behind-the scenes account of the truth behind Formula 1” which, “confirmed that Beverley Turner is much more than a pretty face” and described the book as “a sensational exposé of the world's most high-profile capitalist jamboree” and lastly, my favourite, “It sounds like three years spent fighting off Peter Stingfellow in a jacuzzi.”
Touching Distance
This was both an easy and a tough book to write. It is about my life and James’s (my now ex-husband), before and mainly after a near-fatal brain injury that he sustained in July 2010. It’s not all dark though – it’s actually completely hilarious in parts (if I do say so myself). The honeymoon chapter is worth the price alone. I’m proud to say that it’s become something of a handbook for people touched by brain-injury. There is lots of advice in there about surviving the early days and months of having a brain injury in your family. It ends on a high-note about being proud of my husband and sharing his incredible life despite his life-changing injury. Unfortunately, the real-life denouement is that we did eventually split-up. Which is something of a downer. So if you can block that out, have a read – it’s good! https://amzn.to/3faEH9C
The Happy Birth Book
Inspired by wanting all women to have excellent births and all partners feeling elated and amazed by their goddess women, I started an ante-natal course in West London in 2015 which has morphed into three successful groups and gave rise to this wonderful book! Yes, I wrote it and yes, it really is the only book you need if you’re pregnant. I was able to plumb the depths of expertise possessed by the amazing midwife, Pam Wild, and draw upon my own experiences of giving birth as well as all the incredible women I have got to know at The Happy Birth Club.
www.thehappybirthclub.co.uk