Thanks to the Lionesses' success at the 2022 Euros, the visibility of women's football has rocketed across the UK and beyond. The tournament brought women's football to new audiences and the Lionesses' brought their personalities into our hearts.

Since then, participation in girls' and women's football as smashed records, as have the number of people watching matches, both a major tournaments in weekly leagues like the WSL.

But it wasn't always like that. The fight for women's football has been long and hard. On my first trip to watch the Lionesses at Wembley in November 2019, something in me changed. The sight of that beautiful lush green pitch, the roar of a 70-odd thousand crowd, the tears of emotion as I realised how far the sport had come since I was a child falling in love with football...It all got to me.

From a time where a teacher laughed at the idea of girls playing football to a capacity crowd at Wembley. But what happened in between? I HAD to know.

So I researched and I wrote. For a year. I interviewed former Lionesses, I spoke to women who'd once been a girl like me: in love with football but not able to access it. I learned the stories of pioneers who hadn't taken "no" for an answer and who set in motion what we see today across the world.

The story from 100 years ago until now is laid out in She Can Kick It.

Combining stories from across the world with Lioness experiences and my own tales woven in, this is a comprehensive overview of how women's football developed. And as former England captain Carol Thomas said about it, "an easy read, written with passion by a fan rather than an academic. One to add to your collection."

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