360 Degrees of Love

Elaine M Black

A heartfelt testament to love and friendship in all their forms. This is an honest, emotional and at times humorous memoir of courage, compassion, care, and the people who matter most.

Form

Memoir

Author

Elaine M Black

Setting

Albury, New South Wales

Themes

Love, care, courage & return

“A life is never just one story. It is all the people and places that somehow stay with you.”

- Elaine M Black -

A life told without looking away.

Elaine writes about the moments that changed her, and the enduring connections that brought her home to herself.

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01. A life in motion

From an itinerant childhood and a nursing career to the rapid changes of early adulthood.

02. Care and connection

A deeply personal account of love when Parkinson’s Disease and dementia change a marriage.

03. The way back

Recovery, resilience and a reconnection with someone Elaine had known fifty years earlier.

Born in Albury. Back where she belongs.

Now in her seventies, Australian author Elaine M Black reflects on the extraordinarily, ordinary life that has brought her full circle to Albury, New South Wales. Her work is candid about grief, recovery and caregiving, and generous about love’s capacity to surprise us.

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