The daughter of Scottish Olympic gold medalist and missionary Eric Liddell has written a book seeking to know the father she never met through the faith that drove him.
Eric Liddell is most famous as the athlete who refused to run on a Sunday but went on to win gold in the Paris Olympics 400m, inspiring the film Chariots of Fire. However, he spent most of his adult life working as a missionary in China.
Maureen Liddell Moore, his third child, was three years old and living in Canada when he died in a Japanese internment Camp in China in 1945. Maureen’s mother, Eric’s wife, had been pregnant with her when she fled the Japanese invasion.