Book description
Is it possible to change your life in middle age? Are we destined to
follow the same path, or are there new opportunities to be grasped? This
is a lifeaffirming memoir which will inspire and delight. At the age of
42, and after 10 years of motherhood, Wilma decided to do what she'd
always wanted to do: learn to surf. So she did just that, and moved to
Biarritz with her children. Having arrived in Biarritz, her first outing
was a disaster, ending up with several broken bones, a fractured ego and
shattered confidence. Just when she thought she'd left it too late to
really enjoy learning surfing, she set up the Mamas Surf Club, a club
for women who felt they'd spent too long watching life's action from
their beach towels. With the rest of her life in chaos, Wilma became
certain that if she could stand up and surf, everything else would fall
into place. And it did. As Wilma states “I was right...although rather
than say everything else fell into place, once I learned to surf, none
of the rest seemed to matter any more.” Wilma Johnson is an artist,
writer, and surfer living in Biarritz. She studied painting and
photography at St. Martin's College of Art, and while there she founded
the Neo-Naturist performance art group with Christine and Jennifer
Binnie and Grayson Perry. She has exhibited her work internationally,
and has lived in England, Ireland, Mexico and now France.
