Author: CRACKNELL, RUTH.
Title: Journey from Venice. A Memoir.
Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp. (xii) 273; references; original papered boards, dustjacket; a fine copy. (Victoria), Viking, (2000). This book covers the time Ruth Cracknell and her husband, Eric Phillips, were visiting Venice at which time he had a paralysing stroke; Ruth unable to speak any Italian she organised his medical treatment and have him returned to Australia. Eric later died in a Sydney hospital.

Keywords: Biography Eric Phillip loss husbands death grief psychological aspects memoir Australian memoir Ruth Cracknell