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Surf Mama in The Connexion

October 21, 2014 by Wilma Johnson

Really nice ’20 minute book review’ in The Connexion. Just a little disclaimer – I was only referring to my own ‘dowdy 70s layered haircut ‘- no-one else has one, except perhaps the sheep . Need to make that clear or I may never drink Guinness in Dingle again! It had never occurred to me that wetsuit manufacturers do not offer a maternity range but Wilma Johnson noticed it as she was summing up the good (three children) and the bad (a […]

Categories: press, surf mama • Tags: Biarritz, Dingle, Living in France, mamas surf club, surf book, surfmama, The Connexion, Womens surfing

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Surf Mama Review in Trip Fiction

September 8, 2014 by Wilma Johnson

Wilma Johnson is living on the West Coast of Ireland with her husband and 3 small children. She is an artist and homemaker, whilst her husband takes to the waves and enjoys the surf. After 10 years and an increasingly wobbly marriage, the whole family decamps to Olatua, Biarritz in search of the Endless Summer Dream. Her surfing life at the age of 44 is just about to begin and she determines to learn to stand on a piece of […]

Categories: press • Tags: surf book, surf mama, travel writing, trip fiction, Womens surfing

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Surf Mama Selfie Movie for Psychologies

August 14, 2014 by Wilma Johnson

      Psychologies magazine asked me to make a movie of my road trip round Ireland which ended up in Ballydavid/Baile na nGall, where I first started writing the diary that became Surf Mama 12 years ago. We had a great laugh filming, from the moving car, on windswept hillsides, in dark smokey bars…… Unfortunately most of the footage was unusable despite being filmed on my state of the art smart phone – partly because I had forgotten in […]

Categories: events, press • Tags: Ballydavid, Dingle, Ireland, Psychologies magazine, selfie movie, surf books, surf mama, Wild Atlantic Way

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Surf Mama in Psychologies Magazine

August 6, 2014 by Wilma Johnson

https://psychologies.co.uk/why-wilma-johnson-making-waves  

Categories: press, surf mama • Tags: Biarritz, psychologies, surf, surf mama, surfbooks, wilma johnson, women surfing

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Surf Mama in France

July 4, 2014 by Wilma Johnson

SURF MAMA Wilma Johnson, Summersdale £8.99 Artist mother and wife Wilma Johnson was living a seemingly contented life on the west coast of Ireland when, in her mid forties , she was overwhelmed by the desire to seize the moment and move to the French resort of Biarritz to take up surfing in the Atlantic Ocean. However, Wilma’s dreams soon turned sour, with her marriage starting to suffer and her children speaking no French. Her first attempt at surfing was […]

Categories: press, surf mama • Tags: beach reads, Biarritz, France, Living in France, surf, wilma johnson

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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 in Express Monday 9th June

June 11, 2014 by Wilma Johnson

      I turned a mid-life crisis into my great adventure on the waves. Mother-of-three WILMA JOHNSON was in her 40s when she realised all she wanted to diii was go surfing.   Sitting on a deserted windswept beach on the most westerly point of Irelandauthor and artist Wilma Johnson rememebers experiencing a life-changing epiphany. As she watched husband Nick gliding effortlessly across the Atlantic swell she suddenly decided that her mission in life was to learn to surf. […]

Categories: press, surf mama • Tags: surf, surfbooks, surfing, wilma johnson

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