Walking with Bob Carr is highly apposite. His new book begins with him wandering Sydney’s night-time streets for kilometres in a trance of grief after the death of his beloved wife, Helena.
“You become what I call ‘memory struck’ in your bereaved condition. Knocked sideways. Unabashed nostalgia, I think, becomes part of the approach to life that a bereaved person takes,” says Carr, the New South Wales Labor premier for a decade until 2005 with Helena ever by his side – publicly, privately.
