Barbara Ridley

writer

Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction, Short Memoir

News and Updates

Barbara’s 2nd novel Unswerving will be published on March 26, 2024 by University of Wisconsin Press.

This just in! A wonderful review in Foreword Reviews.
“In Barbara Ridley’s gripping novel Unswerving… a woman facing tremendous losses transforms because of her courage, resilience, and community.”

When It’s Over is now available as an audiobook narrated by the award-winning Jilly Bond! Listen to a sample:

UNSWERVING: Author Readings and Events

Please consider Pre-ordering from the bookstores that are hosting these events. Stay tuned for more!

Saturday April 13, 2024, 2.00pm.    Book Passage, Corte Madera CA.
Book Launch Party with Left Coast Writers (all welcome.)
https://www.bookpassage.com/search/site/unswerving%20barbara%20ridley


Thursday April 18, 2024, 7.00pm     Books Inc, Berkeley CA.
In conversation with Lori Ostlund.
https://www.booksinc.net/search/site/unswerving%20barbara%20ridley


Thursday April 25, 2024, 7.00pm.     Third Place Books Lake Forest Park, Seattle WA.
In conversation with Kate Jessica Raphael
https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/search/site/unswerving%20barbara%20ridley


Friday May 10, 2024, 7.00pm.           Booksmith, Brookline, (Boston) MA.
In conversation with Amy Hoffman
https://www.brooklinebooksmith.com/search/site/unswerving%20barbara%20ridley

Pre-order Unswerving

Buy When It’s Over

New Published Stories

June 2023
Creative Non-fiction in Mud Season Review Getting Up There about Barbara’s love for backpacking, thoughts on aging, inspiration from May Sarton, and more.

August 2022
Stuck Short fiction published in WayWords Themed Anthology on “Vacation”.

About Barbara

Barbara Ridley is the author of When It’s Over, a literary novel set in Europe in World War II, published 2017 by She Writes Press.

Originally from London, U.K., she has lived in California for most of her adult life. She loves the San Francisco Bay Area which is now her home, and likes to spend as much time as she can in the great outdoors.

She was born in London and grew up in a tiny village in Sussex. She attended the University of Sussex and the North London School of Nursing, and worked for 40 years as a nurse and then a nurse practitioner, specializing in the care of adults with physical disabilities. Now retired from her day job, she is focusing on her writing. She lives with her wife in the East Bay.

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