My Speed King : Life with Donald Campbell

UK: Sutton Publishing Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0750929316 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Green cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine.No inscriptions. Photographs. 235 pages clean and tight. THE love affair between British speed king Donald Campbell and vivacious singer Tonia Bern was one of the great romances of the twentieth century. But passion turned to tragedy with the dramatic death of Campbell on Coniston Water in January 1967 as he attempted to break the world water speed record in his famous jet boat, Bluebird. In this intimate portrait of her love affair with and marriage to Campbell, Tonia tells the inside story of her heady life with Britain's national land and water speed hero. The collision between the two worlds of the 1960s jet-set and show-biz promised a fast and furious ride, but their volcanic marriage and the pressures of trying to combine two high-profile careers sometimes took their toll on the relationship. Writing soon after Donald's death, Tonia turned her tremendous sense of personal loss into a vivid evocation of what it was really like to be married to a man with a great lust for love-making and high-speed record-breaking. But it has taken her until now to choose to tell the full story. The result is a tale of deep love and passion, fast cars and high living, cruelly cut short by a tragic twist of fate. .