Eve Muirhead: Ice Queen: The Autobiography

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Eve Muirhead got her fairy tale career conclusion an Olympic gold medal to complete the set.

The Perthshire farmers daughter, multi-talented in sport, inherited her fathers love of, and talent for, the roaring game of curling. The road from child prodigy to best in the world wasnt a straight line, however. This is the story of hidden adversity, sporting escapism, inner doubt and external pressure.

Teammates and coaches changed but the resolve of Britains Ice Queen to fight for her golden ending at a fourth and final Winter Olympics refused to melt. Eve Muirhead changed her sport and will now change perceptions of what it took to become a leader, a role model and a national icon as one of Scotlands most successful ever athletes.

This is her story.

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Eric Nicolson is a journalist from Perth, Scotland who has been a sports editor and writer with The Courier newspaper since the mid-1990s. He has covered golfs Ryder Cup and Open Championship, the Commonwealth Games, the Davis Cup in tennis, the finals of a football World Cup and European Championship and more Scottish club matches than he cares to remember, including St Johnstone FCs golden era of three national trophy wins. Follow him on Twitter: @C_ENicolson