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Surf Mama in French Entree magazine

July 4, 2014 by Wilma Johnson

SURF MAMA Wilma Johnson Summersdale £8.99 An autobiographical novel by a self-professed earth mother turned surf babe, who after ten years living on the remote west coast of Ireland had three children, a few chickens, a failing marriage and the beginnings of a mid-life crisis to show for it. The answer, relocate to Biarritz and defy the male-dominated surf scene by learning to surf. Though narcissistic at times,Wilma’s tongue-in-cheek humour makes it okay to re-invent yourself post-40, post children and […]

Categories: press, surf mama • Tags: Biarritz, French Entree, Living in France, surf mama, wilma johnson

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Surf Mama in Woman’s Own

July 3, 2014 by Wilma Johnson

How the Beach Changed Our Lives. Something incredible happened to these readers when they headed on to the sand.   Could I really learn to surf ? Sitting on a lonely stretch of beach I gazed out to sea and asked myself where it had all gone wrong ? I was 45, living in a coastal village near Biarritz, France, and my marriage had ended. Nick and I had three gorgeous children and had tried so hard to make it work, even […]

Categories: press, surf mama • Tags: beach, change your life, mamas surf club, surf, surfbooks, woman's own

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Spirit FM – Wave Euphoria

July 3, 2014 by Wilma Johnson

Spirit FM Review of Surf Mama Surf Mama By Wilma Johnson Published by Summersdale Billed as ‘one woman’s search for love, happiness and the perfect wave,’ here is a book that manages to be both a brilliant piece of travel writing and an amazing and inspirational human interest story. Living on the west coast of Ireland with her family, juggling her work as an artist with domesticity, in her 40s Wilma was suddenly gripped with the desire to move to […]

Categories: press • Tags: beach reads, surf, surfbooks, travel writing

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Surf Mama #1

July 1, 2014 by Wilma Johnson

I arrived in London at my mother’s house and there by the door were these two wooden bellyboards, they brought back vague memories of childhood holidays in Lyme Regis. Stormy days when the whole family would pack a picnic and head off to Charmouth beach to catch the waves under the cliffs, Mary Anning’s dinosaurs embedded in the mud. The children were only allowed waist deep half terrified by threats of currents that would whisk us away, half ecstatic to […]

Categories: Blog, Photos, surf mama • Tags: 80 something, surfing, women surfing

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