In 2013 Prior-Palmer became the first woman to win the
Mongol Derby, the world's longest horse race, as well as the youngest person ever to complete it. Her autobiography
Rough Magic, recounting her experience competing in the race, was published in 2019. The memoir received positive reviews in
The Washington Post and
The Daily Telegraph:
Sarah Moss, writing in
The Guardian, stated: "It's the resistance to the obvious narratives that makes
Rough Magic so appealing: the book undermines lazy women-in-the-wilderness tropes at every turn." ==References==