News and Updates
Barbara’s 2nd novel Unswerving now published by University of Wisconsin Press.
Great News! 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.”
And More News! Barbara’s first novel When It’s Over is now distributed by Simon & Schuster Order Here
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
Past events: Stay Tuned for more…..
Missed the Unswerving Author Events? You can watch the YouTube recording of the Brookline event here
The image and sound are fuzzy in places, and Spoiler Alert: there are spoilers…. but it was a wonderful event.
Saturday April 13, 2024, 2.00pm. Book Passage, Corte Madera CA.
Book Launch Party with Left Coast Writers.
Thursday April 18, 2024, 7.00pm Books Inc, Berkeley CA.
In conversation with Lori Ostlund.
Thursday April 25, 2024, 7.00pm. Third Place Books Lake Forest Park, Seattle WA.
In conversation with Kate Jessica Raphael
Friday May 10, 2024, 7.00pm. Booksmith, Brookline, (Boston) MA.
In conversation with Amy Hoffman
BUY Unswerving
Buy When It’s Over
New Published Stories
May 2024
Short Fiction in The Mantelpiece Literary Magazine. Something’s Up–a story set during COVID lockdown. Scroll to Page 25 of this beautiful journal, or you can read it in PDF.
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.
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About Barbara
Barbara Ridley is an author of literary fiction and personal essays/memoir pieces. Her debut novel, When It’s Over, set in Europe in World War II, was published 2017. Her new novel, Unswerving, has just been published (2024) by the University of Wisconsin 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.
