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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 The Twelfth Raven : A Memoir of Stroke, Love and Recovery
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'When poet Doris Brett’s fit, healthy, 59-year-old husband had a massive stroke, losing the ability to speak, they were thrown into a journey of discovery.

'A golfball-sized blood clot in Martin’s brain was followed by a life-threatening heart condition. Later Brett learned that she carried the potentially deadly BRCA1 genetic mutation.

'As a psychologist, Brett was able to access and apply all the latest research on brain plasticity and neurotherapy and her husband confounded his doctors by making an exceptional recovery.

'In The Twelfth Raven, Brett calls on her poetic gifts to find meaning in illness and turn pain into art.' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Dedication: For Martin and Amantha the loving core of my life.

  • Epigraph:

    One for bad news,

    Two for mirth,

    Three is a wedding,

    Four is a birth,

    Five is for riches,

    Six is a thief,

    Seven, a journey,

    Eight is for grief,

    Nine is a secret,

    Ten is for sorrow,

    Eleven is for love,

    Twelve - joy for tomorrow.

    (Ole English rhyme used to interpret raven sightings.)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crawley, Inner Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: UWA Publishing , 2014 .
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      Extent: 320p.
      Note/s:
      • Published March 2014
      ISBN: 9781742585635
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Works about this Work

Review : The Twelfth Raven Heather Lunney , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Good Reading , May 2014; (p. 57)
— Review of The Twelfth Raven : A Memoir of Stroke, Love and Recovery Doris Brett , 2014 single work autobiography
The Twelfth Raven by Doris Brett Sarah Morton , 2014 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The NSW Writers' Centre Blog
— Review of The Twelfth Raven : A Memoir of Stroke, Love and Recovery Doris Brett , 2014 single work autobiography
Coaxing the Universal From the Particular Agnes Nieuwenhuizen , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 31 May - 1 June 2014; (p. 20-21)
— Review of The Twelfth Raven : A Memoir of Stroke, Love and Recovery Doris Brett , 2014 single work autobiography ; Shy : A Memoir Sian Prior , 2014 single work autobiography
Well Read Katharine England , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 10 May 2014; (p. 25)
— Review of The Twelfth Raven : A Memoir of Stroke, Love and Recovery Doris Brett , 2014 single work autobiography
Reporting on the Role as Her Husband's Caregiver Caroline Baum , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 13 April 2014; (p. 16)
— Review of The Twelfth Raven : A Memoir of Stroke, Love and Recovery Doris Brett , 2014 single work autobiography
Medical Hell Charted with Skill Descent Into Medical Hell Charted with Lucid Skill Lucy Sussex , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 5-6 April 2014; (p. 32-33) The Canberra Times , 5 April 2014; (p. 26) The Age , 5 April 2014; (p. 33)
— Review of The Twelfth Raven : A Memoir of Stroke, Love and Recovery Doris Brett , 2014 single work autobiography
The Trickster Rachel Robertson , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 360 2014; (p. 27)
— Review of The Twelfth Raven : A Memoir of Stroke, Love and Recovery Doris Brett , 2014 single work autobiography
Interior Life of a Carer Caroline Baum , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 13 April 2014; (p. 12)
— Review of The Twelfth Raven : A Memoir of Stroke, Love and Recovery Doris Brett , 2014 single work autobiography
Reporting on the Role as Her Husband's Caregiver Caroline Baum , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 13 April 2014; (p. 16)
— Review of The Twelfth Raven : A Memoir of Stroke, Love and Recovery Doris Brett , 2014 single work autobiography
Well Read Katharine England , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 10 May 2014; (p. 25)
— Review of The Twelfth Raven : A Memoir of Stroke, Love and Recovery Doris Brett , 2014 single work autobiography
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