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“I do not want to stop, my need-to-know propelling me forward, aching for some kind of resolution or understanding. And yet I do not know how much more weight I can bear.” 

– From RIPIRO BEACH by Caroline Barron

“This is one powerful read. I found it riveting, at times confronting, moving and passionate. It’s a very brave book”

—DAME Fiona Kidman

 

Ripiro Beach

A MEMOIR of LIFE AFTER NEAR DEATH

*** October 2020: Ripiro Beach wins the New Zealand Heritage Literary Award for Best Non-fiction Book of 2020.***

Does DNA write our destinies? Or do the hands that nurture triumph over nature? What is it that determines who we really are?

Caroline Barron’s father never found his birth mother. After he dies suddenly on her twentieth birthday, Caroline develops an insidious fear of her own untimely death. When she nearly bleeds out on an operating table during childbirth, it almost seems her greatest fear is justified.

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‘A vivid and profound journey into family secrets and the unknowable past.’

Paula Morris, author of award-winning novel, RangATira

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So good to be back at Ripiro. It’s easy to take So good to be back at Ripiro. It’s easy to take for granted the little community we lucked into five years ago, but this week — especially after this blimmin’ tough year — I’m so grateful for our Baylys Beach Crew. Especially the Camp Club and the effort that goes into the NY fun: Olympic Games, Town to Tide run (both our girls and Jez ran/walked the whole 13km, proud!), fishing comp (team Barron managed 13 in our net) and resulting midnight smoked fish feast, hat comp (won by Hazel, check out those flowers!), sandcastle comp, and today’s Camp Club versus Dargaville cricket match (the country’s longest-running beach match). RIP Brian Harding. 💧💙🏏
Another highlight was last night’s christening of the gin cabin high on the hill on our property—magic people and magic views. So, to our local Baylys pals, and our Camp Club pals, we’re so grateful for you and our gang of roaming kids. 💕
Yusss, made it through to the next round of @nycmi Yusss, made it through to the next round of @nycmidnight flash fiction. Sci-fi not my strongest suit but managed to write a story about an AI-human hybrid guy getting a new lung from a vending machine and escaping back to Earth to be reunited with his mum. All that in 250 words 🤪. Anyone else doing this comp? So much fun.
Superhero cat + sidekick. #bowballerinabarron #th Superhero cat + sidekick. 
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Two excellent non-fiction reads this week, and tim Two excellent non-fiction reads this week, and timely reminders of 1) the creative mindset (thanks to Jerry Saltz, chief art critic for New York magazine), and 2) recognising distractions and how to choose what’s important (thanks to amazing Oliver Burkeman, all-round what-it-means-to-be-human writer). Thanks to @bookshop_lady for the Burkeman recommendation 💕📚
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