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It’s grim at times, but you won’t forget the true story behind Penguin Bloom – Sydney Morning Herald
The account of Sam Bloom’s fight to regain her taste for living after finding herself unable to walk is both harrowing and heartening.
She was a surfer whose self-esteem was bound up in her athleticism and in the pleasure she took in the supremely strenuous business of bringing up three boys. And after the accident, the mere sight of the waves breaking on the beach below the Bloom house at Newport brings her nothing but pain.
But the element which distinguishes the account of her rehabilitation from any other is the avian adventure story which runs in tandem with it. Noah (Griffin Murray Johnston), the eldest of the Bloom boys,…
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